Although a sickly child, he would survive into robust old age.

Patients show variable lifespans with some individuals surviving until adulthood and into old age.

There are now far more people surviving into old age and, since families are smaller, they have fewer children to care for them.

Kitty was their only child to survive into old age.

Of her 11 children only three survived into adult age.

Christian tradition has generally passed down that all but one were martyred, with John surviving into old age.

The advantage of surviving into old age is that you finally get to say what you think.

People from country places sometimes honor me with a reply, perhaps because I look like one of them who has survived into old age.

Surviving into old age, he brought their ideas and working methods into the late twentieth century.

The couple had five children, four of whom survived into adult age.