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  • noun the time of life between 70 and 80.

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  • noun the time of life between 70 and 80

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Examples

  • This October 29th, Denver bands are bringing the Hi-Dive back to CBGB's in the mid-seventies, as they're covering iconic bands that played the legendary venue.

    Angora Holly Polo: Denver Does CBGB's: Hindershot on Talking Heads Angora Holly Polo 2011

  • This October 29th, Denver bands are bringing the Hi-Dive back to CBGB's in the mid-seventies, as they're covering iconic bands that played the legendary venue.

    Angora Holly Polo: Denver Does CBGB's: Hindershot on Talking Heads Angora Holly Polo 2011

  • Jared lived with his grandmother, Mrs. Mills, a widow in her mid-seventies.

    Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011

  • In his mid-seventies, Robert Redford is still hanging on to the good looks and easy charm that have earned him a firm place in the pantheon of American film legends, but it was refreshing to see that like most mortals of a certain age, he is not immune to the occasional "senior moment".

    Stephanie Green: Redford Looks Years Younger, But Still Has "Senior Moments" Stephanie Green 2011

  • In the mid-seventies, while printing some photographs in her mother's darkroom, Diane Keaton stumbled on something she'd never seen: one of her mother's journals.

    Debra Ollivier: Diane Keaton's Ode To Motherhood Debra Ollivier 2011

  • Jared lived with his grandmother, Mrs. Mills, a widow in her mid-seventies.

    Who Said It Would Be Easy Cheryl Faye 2011

  • While she did not quite echo my sentiment of “bliss was it, in that dawn to be alive!”, she did confirm that the mid-seventies was an exhilarating time for methodologists and materials writers, where the sense of a sea-change was palpable, and where the publishers, too, were prepared to throw caution to the wind.

    March « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • I was a philosophy major at Princeton in the mid-seventies: I had classes with Davidson and Nagel, also Sheldon Wolin.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • While she did not quite echo my sentiment of “bliss was it, in that dawn to be alive!”, she did confirm that the mid-seventies was an exhilarating time for methodologists and materials writers, where the sense of a sea-change was palpable, and where the publishers, too, were prepared to throw caution to the wind.

    S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • In his mid-seventies, Robert Redford is still hanging on to the good looks and easy charm that have earned him a firm place in the pantheon of American film legends, but it was refreshing to see that like most mortals of a certain age, he is not immune to the occasional "senior moment".

    Stephanie Green: Redford Looks Years Younger, But Still Has "Senior Moments" Stephanie Green 2011

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