Arabic translation question

The last two days I was in Cairo I made trips to all the bookstores I could find and bought enough arabic books to stuff my backpack.  Now I’m starting to translate them for practice and ran into one problem sentence.

How do you translate:

كان أخوه وأخَوَاتُة البنات يكبُرونه بِعدَّة سَنَوات

My best guess is:

He had brothers, and his sister, the girl, was several years older.

I hope to scan and upload my source books to a wiki so that others can have some original material to translate also.

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