How To Use Forties In A Sentence
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Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and
A Desperate Character and Other Stories
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He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
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They are now in their forties and the mainstay of the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes.
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Following him was a petite woman who also was in her mid forties but didn't look a day over thirty five.
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I understand the feelings of loss among those who have fond memories of the Odeon in its heyday of the Thirties and Forties.
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But it's in their forties or fifties that many people also experience a unique moment of joyous relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
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There are typical MacDonald observations and descriptions, like this one: "Three lean women in bathing suits sat at one tabel, complete with beach bags, tall drinks, and that special porcelainized facial expression of middle forties trying, with monied success, to look like middle thirties.
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But he discovered that the connecting white matter actually grew until his subjects reached their late forties.
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It is most often diagnosed in women in their thirties and forties, although I've seen it in many younger women, as well.
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Etymologists are uncertain about exactly when the word hippie came into existence, although it is clearly a variation of the term hipster, which had been in use during the forties, in reference to devotees of jazz music.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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By her forties she was spectacled, stout and keen on knitting.
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The audience were mostly men in their forties, reliving their adolescence with unselfconscious glee (and, latterly, gimpy dancing).
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But Turkish ladies of varying ages do tend to wear very lovely bright headscarves, far prettier than the headscarves as worn by Mrs Mop of the forties and fifties.
Message from Istanbul
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In the thirties and forties, Long Trail lodges were equipped with good stoves, bucksaws for felling trees, and axes for cutting kindling.
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He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes.
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Their driver was a burly, bearded man in his forties.
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This is the sixteenth book by a woman whose name has become the byword for the authentic account of Irish living in the ‘Forties’ and ‘Fifties’.
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For women old age was often thought to start earlier, in the late forties or around fifty, when the physical concomitants of menopause became visible; for men the defining characteristic was capacity for full-time work.
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She was in a pouty sort of pink dress with her hair in sleek finger waves -- forties ' style.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Both women are in their forties, both women look fashion rather than victim.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of my coworkers is a male in his early - to mid - forties and the other is a male in his late twenties.
2010 May 10 — Fusion Despatches
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Already in his mid forties by this time, his editorial and advertising photography broke with conventions of fashion imagery in radical ways.
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In her forties, Dance guessed, she had a round figure and her face was moonish.
Roadside Crosses
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The blue-and-white pulled in past a rusting gas station that must have been a relic of the forties.
FLOATING CITY
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
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The picture was taken in the late Forties, when her father had been demobbed from the Royal Artillery.
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The lecturer is a buff guy in his mid-forties with a husky voice, and he's standing next to a blowup mattress.
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And wages vary by age - peak decades for earning are our thirties and forties.
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In the forties the membership was spread among upper middle class officials and professionals, rajas and zamindars.
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He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
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We are in our forties and met through a mutual friend six months ago.
The Sun
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She was older than me, well into her forties, but a real stunner.
The Sun
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For that comparatively early flying era, in the early Forties, its flying range was quite remarkable.
SAN ANDREAS
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The forties and fifties found her stealing the limelight in a series of successful West End revues in addition to entertaining the forces, appearing in variety and cabaret performances.
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Despite her silver-grey hair she was still in her forties; and her vivid blue eyes were those of someone younger still.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Some twenty years previously, in the nineteen - forties , Fremont Rider had arrived at precisely the same conclusion.
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And yet from his twenties to his forties he felt a deep unease that became worse with time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
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Unlike Norton and Margot, their career continued to flourish through the forties and fifties, but no longer as a brother act.
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Cliff Joyner, in his early forties, is from North Carolina.
The Magician
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Using Broadway as her centre, she trawled back and forth from the high Twenties, through the Thirties and into the Forties.
CHAMELEON
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Songs like ‘I Have Forgiven Jesus’ mine a deep vein of self-loathing that, poignant in his younger self, seems more troubling in a man in his forties.
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She is a small woman in her early forties with short red hair.
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Some twenty years previously, in the nineteen - forties , Fremont Rider had arrived at precisely the same conclusion.
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He was in his forties with curly salt-and-pepper hair and was wearing a surfer shirt.
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He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes.
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I am in my early forties and an otherwise fit and healthy woman.
Times, Sunday Times
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He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play.
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cumber, a senior civil servant in his late forties, pleasant, well-educated, self-possessed and competent, welcomes her.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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The blue-and-white pulled in past a rusting gas station that must have been a relic of the forties.
FLOATING CITY
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He looked like he was in his early forties with thin, wavy gray hair and a sorrowful expression.
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Milos Valnik turned out to be a bulky man in his middle forties, probably because he was dressed for winter.
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Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.
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Aware, in his mid-forties, that all the time off for cricket had queered his prospects for mainstream advancement at the bank, Alan seized the new career opportunity.
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He was a large, barrel-chested man in his early forties, his black hair plastered to his skull with hair cream.
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The men, both in their mid-forties, bearded and dressed in the local traditional baggy long shirt and trousers, washed, ate, prayed and then talked.
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Mr. Bruce was a voice actor in many cartoons of the thirties, forties and fifties, most notably as the narrator of silly travelogues and newsreels.
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She's probably in her early forties.
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Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals.
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Although temperamentally unsuited to medicine, he qualified as a doctor in 1951 when in his forties.
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I bought my copy second-hand, from a Trotskyist in her forties.
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Six feet tall, he was in his forties, had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw.
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This syndrome mostly affects women in their forties.
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I am in my early forties and don't really drink or have a massive appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
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Allie was in her early twenties, young very pretty and I was in my late forties.
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She was a good-looking woman in her forties with a determined jaw and probing blue eyes.
THE ONLY GAME
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No woman in her forties should be obliged to house-train - which is where the domesticated divorcee comes in.
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We were buff and healthy, impressive physical specimens powering through our thirties and forties with vim and vigour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because I was having this child in my early forties, there was a slight risk factor.
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The man was in his late forties, balding, with a neatly trimmed black beard.
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I have female friends too, in their thirties and forties who haven't progressed beyond the giggly fifth-former stage.
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The sample was 50: 50 male and female (one more female than male, but she was lost in rounding), 1.1% were in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 33.8% in their thirties, 30.6% in their forties, 14.7% in their fifties, and 6.7% aged sixty or older.
Pet life in Japan
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As thirties make way for forties, so do boho and chaotic layers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Zootsuit spit-and-polish, like beboppers of the forties and fifties on the sleeves of Hatch's record albums, Ward is leaning against a black hearse, his face cold and blank.
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
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The age of the grandparents ranged from the early forties to mid fifties.
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Both women were in their early forties and wore navy-blue barathea skirts and white blouses.
THE BOOK LADY
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The couple run a family business: Steve takes care of the leathers and other merchandise, and Loz runs the cafe, which is a hybrid of Forties tea room, Fifties cafe and American diner.
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Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
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(Soundbite of song, "Borderline") Ms. YESENIA PUM (Writer, 826LA): (Reading) In the video, Madonna, dressed as a classic low rider chola in a forties-style hair bonnet, white wife-beater, long drape coat, and baggy pants that came up to her waist ...
'The Madonnas Of Echo Park': Residents, Reinvented
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The police are looking for a Caucasian male in his forties.
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An oily guy in his forties comes up to me and asks, ‘How do you like your diamonds cut - round or square?’
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Many readers, whose lives carry them back before the "forties," taking their stand beneath the broad gateway or pebbled court-yard of our old inns -- the Red Lion, the Bull, or the Crown -- would require a very slight effort of memory to recall the exhilarating spectacle of the arrival and departure of the stage coach of fifty or sixty years ago.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
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In its images, its language, costumes, and lighting, it seeks to recall and amplify the great noir films of the forties and fifties; but it's a hollow construction, because the vital vision has vanished from its core.
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Most of the pictures showed Frank senior in his early forties, with his broad gleaming grin and backswept hair.
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The subject of this research was a retrospect of events, which happened during the thirties and first half of the forties (20th century).
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He was a big man in his forties; once he had a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed.
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The instructor of visual arts was in his middle forties, equipped with a sinewy body and a receding hairline.
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He was described as being aged in his late forties or fifties, with short, straight, grey hair.
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The man was in his forties, had scraggy brown hair, and dark green eyes.
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The man was in his mid forties with a long brown hair and a beard.
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She must have been in her early forties, with short blonde hair and black-rimmed glasses resting on her nose.
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Lesley, aged 48, who lives in Guiseley, trains twice a week and took up running as she was determined to be fit and not overweight in her forties.
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Iam in my early forties and getting married for the first time to my long-term boyfriend.
Times, Sunday Times
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Father Goose is a fun film and Grant and Caron make a plausible pair of potential lovers, as long as you accept that she’s playing a few years older than her real age so that she’s closer to forty than thirty and he’s playing a guy in his late forties, somewhat weathered by the tropical sun and rusting from the inside out thanks to his heavy drinking.
Time catches up with all of us, even Cary Grant
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So the Forties pencil skirt was swapped for a forgiving Fifties-ish prom style; shirts were untucked and oversized; trousers came in soft silks; and the sweater - well, what says "relaxed" more than a slubby knit?
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Very few men in their forties caught my eye but once in the fifties, they aged rapidly in comparison to their female counterparts.
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The temperature is expected to be in the forties tomorrow.
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And wages vary by age - peak decades for earning are our thirties and forties.
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Professor Stanton was in his late forties, silver haired and handsome to the girls in class, although his deep-clefted chin drew him the nickname Dr. Assface.
Land of the Blind
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In his forties, he had thick dark eyebrows and an aggressive thrust to his jaw.
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Instead, it is middle earners in the private sector in their thirties and forties who are likely to get the brunt of the trouble.
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He knew the local man to be in his mid-forties, and he adjudged his companion a little over 30.
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He doesn't mind drinking plonk, but says that ‘like a lot of people in their forties, I'd rather have one really good bottle than 20 bottles of bad stuff’.
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Atherosclerosis poses the largest threat when people reach their forties or fifties.
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It's what we never wanted to happen - two guys in their affluent forties sitting around ironically being unironic, drinking sherry and eating biscuits, talking about the good old days of world-changing punk and fury.
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There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period.
St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin
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Any vintage fedoras you find will almost certainly be too small (perhaps men had smaller heads in the Forties, but I have never found a vintage hat that fits).
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Rodney Dangerfield was taunted at school for his unusual bug-eyed appearance, but by his late forties he was established as one of America's most popular comedians.
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Heavy industry and mining took a toll on many generations, leaving tens of thousands of men who reached their forties and fifties only to find they had been deserted both by the trade they were trained in and the strength to learn a new one.
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The Rainbow rode high over the Roaring Forties, crabbing into the wind.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.
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The label grew throughout the big band era, then signed the pop singers who succeeded those bands in the late forties.
The Good Life
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Furlongs was owned and run by a man in his forties who was the perpetual jazzer/ college type.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am size 10-12, have dark colouring and am in my forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class.
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For that comparatively early flying era, in the early Forties, its flying range was quite remarkable.
SAN ANDREAS
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I feel sexy and am always interested in projecting that sexiness of a woman in her forties - or older - on to the screen.
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Synopsis: Captain "Titus" Oates, a British polar explorer, is plucked from the verge of death in 1912 to America in 2045, where aliens called Forties have bestowed time warp technology to humanity.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #19 edited by Gardner Dozois
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The magistrate was a woman in her early to mid forties with completely gray hair which was styled in a cut just below her ears with a bit of a wave.
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Many Poles or those of Polish descent born in the Forties, Fifties and Sixties could be descendants of Siberian deportees.
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The temperature was up in the high forties.
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Teenage behaviour is best reserved for one 's thirties and forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there are the real physical risks of going through all this in your forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think he'll really come into his own during his forties and fifties.
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The multigenerational welfare family with grandmothers in their forties became typical: young women had babies in their teens because there was no reason not to with welfare waiting to pick up the tab.
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The place was built as a casino in the forties.
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Chatting with creative director Kobi Halperin, I find out that a military blanket from the forties is the inspiration for the new mens' line.
Alex Geana: 40s Style With Elie Tahari (PHOTOS)
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Some in the union urged choosing a nurse who reflected average real nurses on the job - middle forties and overworked.
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The monster dropped him and placed a luminous, silver orb in a pocket hidden inside its robe, and then it turned and walked away, leaving someone nearly ninety in place of someone in their forties.
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Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thinning hair.
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Her father, Michael, a suave-looking businessman in his mid-forties with iron-on respectability, is sawing into a huge steak with a large knife in silence.
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This feeling of frustration, so incisively conveyed by these considerations by P. Medawar, pervaded in the forties the field of experimental embryology which had been enthusiastically acclaimed in the mid-thirties, when the upper lip of the amphibian blastopore brought this area of research to the forefront of the biological stage.
Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
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A journalist, who liked traveling, started a new career in her forties as a tour guide.
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A lot of actresses take their meatiest roles in their thirties and forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sam Beckett seemed to be a handsome man in his early forties, with a single white forelock in an otherwise brown head of hair.
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By day, he is an inconspicuous odd job man in his forties.
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Although in the forties, women in the "family way" were no longer confined to their homes to conceal their delicate conditions, those conditions were still confined to a kind of cinematic purdah.
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Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
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He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie.
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I'd rather cruise the roaring forties off Tierra del Fuego in a garbage scow.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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He went on to say that the swelling optimism among pioneers of the forties, fifties and sixties had given way, in some cases, to mild despondency.
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I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice.
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In the forties the membership was spread among upper middle class officials and professionals, rajas and zamindars.
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I bought my copy second-hand, from a Trotskyist in her forties.
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Like most female professionals, women of my age in their forties and fifties dress conservatively.
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It follows that people who are really good at their jobs tend to be somewhere between their early forties and fifties.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked very muscular and in her mid-forties with rich, dark brown curly hair put back in a tight bun.
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A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market.
A Woman in Jerusalem: Summary and book reviews of A Woman in Jerusalem by A Yehoshua.
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The outside lights came on and the door opened to reveal a bearded man in his late forties.
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For that matter, the trail doesn't even have to begin until a player reaches his forties.
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This may sound ethereal, but Conran - who is well into his forties, but looks unbelievably boyish - displays a very real sense of the responsibilities that come with living a charmed life.
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As I entered the back office, a woman I put in her late forties rose from a typist 's chair behind an L-shaped desk.
KICK BACK
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An F - 16 locomotive was frequently seen, and in the late forties the Pacifics brought down from Michigan were also seen frequently.
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Almost all the senior executives had been purged and subsequently tried as class A war criminals since Morozumi had been revamped during the mid forties, becoming one of the leading producers of tri-nitrotoluene for the war effort.
The Miko
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Dr Faragher and his colleagues have been searching for clues in people with Werner's syndrome, a disease in which ageing is speeded up by a faulty gene, causing sufferers to die in their forties with the bodies of centenarians.
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He was faced with a gorgeous man in his forties with silky, boy-cut brown hair, a poised stance, and a charming smile.
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It probably finishes abruptly at the very awkward age of the early forties.
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The place had been built as a gambling casino in the forties.
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Major was a ruddy-complexioned man in his late forties with the closed, hard face of a York-shireman, a handlebar mustache, and the kind of mien one found only in retired boxers, which as it turned out he had been during his stint in the army.
Floating City
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The average age for someone entering the priesthood now is well in the forties.
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As well as rural Forties class culture, with a Northern tang, the other influence is Heath Robinson, that genius inventor of mad machines.
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He had a bald brown face and scalp, no hair left between cheeks and occiput, though he wasn't past his middle forties.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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Most female models have to retire around the age of 25, whereas a well-preserved man can go on working into his forties.
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The place was built as a casino in the forties.
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He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes.
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He looked to be in his forties, dressed in a collared polo shirt and khakis.
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I think that it is a great tragedy with ballet companies if they don't have great senior ballerinas at the head of the company - ballerinas in their forties.
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The lime-green walls are almost completely covered with dozens of perfectly spaced framed posters advertising horror and science-fiction movies of the Thirties, Forties and Fifties.
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He was a handsome Milanese in his forties, and she'd long suspected he was attracted to her.
COMPULSION
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But most shocking were the antics of an outwardly respectable businesswoman in her mid-forties.
The Sun
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She's probably in her early forties.
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Then there are the real physical risks of going through all this in your forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beside him sat a jovial fellow in his late forties or early fifties, with dark greying hair which was cropped short on the sides.
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Teenage behaviour is best reserved for one 's thirties and forties.
Times, Sunday Times
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These depocentres contain thick upper Maureen, Eista and Forties sands deposited in laterally extensive submarine fan systems with widespread confined channelling.
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The couples who sit together on the benches are older, in their late twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and so forth.
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Fortunately for the couple, who are aged in their late forties, it was not enough to lead to any arrests.
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We first met years ago and our paths crossed again now we're in our early forties.
The Sun
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Viable oilfields were discovered in the North Sea off Scotland in 1971 and by November 1975 the Forties field was on stream.
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He looked as lively and sprightly as ever despite now being in his mid forties.
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A new mural on the outside wall of the town hall depicts, in raw Forties naturalist style, a German soldier heroically protecting his womenfolk.
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A skinny bleached-blond woman in her forties wearing jeans and a white undershirt sat on the couch.
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In the forties, many lab scientists labored at their benches pursuing vaccines with inactivated or killed viruses.
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A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class.
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He wasn't the gumshoe, the private eye, the detective of the forties in the black and white noir.
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This syndrome mostly affects women in their forties.
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He was very successful in his middle forties.
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He was in his forties, she guessed, with thick, dark, waved hair and big baby-blue eyes.
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By that time he'll be in his late forties and ripe for a plum preferment.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The man was in his forties, had scraggy brown hair, and dark green eyes.
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There are 85 million Americans in their forties who represent an untapped market for classic soul.
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A man in his forties has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Times, Sunday Times
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The war crimes commission people tried to locate him in the late ` forties.
DISPLACED PERSON
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He was a man in his late forties with a square jaw and flaming red hair.
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Every fleeting image was of a taller young man, perhaps in his early forties, a man with longish brown hair distinguished by a single white forelock falling into warm hazel eyes.
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He wrote these in the Forties, when medieval music was even more of a recherché taste than it is now.
