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He would also have been in short trousers at the time.

She said: "I've known them since they were in short trousers going to school.

When I was in short trousers, there was a terrific sense of optimism about science.

All this was in the early 1970's, when they were in short trousers and the world was at peace.

A man that nobody in the place had cast eyes on since he was in short trousers.' '

“The guy who sold it to me said, ‘People were eating at this table when George Washington was in short trousers.’

But his own and his colleagues" knowledge of 1914-18 derives chiefly from watching Blackadder when they were in short trousers.

Not to mention a nice wad of cash, since he's been starring in TV shows since he was in short trousers.

Before Saturday, the last time we had managed to score against Hearts Craig Brown had been in short trousers.

Lewis will demolish Jenson, goes the argument; he is McLaren's golden boy, having been at the team since he was in short trousers.

In contrast Guy Noves has led Europe's most successful club, Toulouse, since Moses was in short trousers.

No, it was the less well-known Tavistock Communications, which has been servicing the Square Mile since City Spy was in short trousers.

England last lifted a trophy when Robbie Fowler was in short trousers, in the 1993 European Under-18 Championship in Nottingham.

Kalman has played rugby at Whitecraigs since he was in short trousers; Weir only took to the game later in life after a stint playing football for Celtic boys and after an unrelated trip to the dentist, as he explains.

Alonso's father, Periko, won 20 caps playing for Spain in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but even he was in short trousers when his country, then in the grip of General Franco's dictatorship, became European champions on home soil in 1964.

In an unscheduled and sometimes dramatic courtroom appearance today, former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi strongly denied accusations of personal corruption in his country's huge bribery scandal, but acknowledged he had known of widespread, illicit political financing "since I was in short trousers."

But while Mr Obama was in short trousers and Hillary Rodham was waffling to her fellow students about “searching for more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating modes of living”, Mr McCain was having his teeth and bones broken by North Vietnamese interrogators.