"on in years" meaning in English

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      "form": "more on in years",
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      "form": "most on in years",
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        {
          "ref": "1853, Charles Dickens, The Schoolboy's Story",
          "text": "Being rather young at present—I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young—I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, William Butler Yeats, “An Enduring Heart”, in The Celtic Twilight",
          "text": "More years went by, and his wife was dead, and he well on in years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act 3",
          "text": "I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 20, in A Roman Singer",
          "text": "[O]ld as I am,—I do not mean aged, but well on in years,—I believe in love still.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 May 24, Alice Park, “Health: Old Bones, New Hope”, in Time",
          "text": "Brittle bones can be more than just a bother for anyone who is getting on in years.",
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        "Old; advanced in age."
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        "(idiomatic, mildly euphemistic) Old; advanced in age."
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        {
          "word": "elderly"
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      "form": "more on in years",
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    },
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      "form": "most on in years",
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        "superlative"
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, William Butler Yeats, “An Enduring Heart”, in The Celtic Twilight",
          "text": "More years went by, and his wife was dead, and he well on in years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 20, in A Roman Singer",
          "text": "[O]ld as I am,—I do not mean aged, but well on in years,—I believe in love still.",
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        "Old; advanced in age."
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        "(idiomatic, mildly euphemistic) Old; advanced in age."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "elderly"
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  "word": "on in years"
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