An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I am 45, and I am not ready for carpet slippers and 10:30 bedtimes, but I am middle-aged.

I'm a nervous, middle-aged, I guess you'd say 'uptight' lady.