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  • noun Plural form of seventy.
  • noun The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
  • noun The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.

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  • noun the decade from 1970 to 1979
  • noun the time of life between 70 and 80

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Examples

  • I know that the first thing I think about when I remember the seventies is the Fairchild F-8 microprocessor.

    2008 April 2008

  • They are excellent and I have noticed no problems when it comes to covering women writers - the latest volume, covering the seventies, is certainly sympathetic when it covers the rise of feminism in SF: clearly he has no intellectual problem with women in SF.

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

  • Most of my collection was levered off walls in the seventies from the top of precipitously-leaning ladders.

    Off the Wall Peter Ashley 2008

  • And you can actually see two species that weren't discoveried until the seventies from the main Antananarivo-Tuléara road (Benson's Rock Thrush and Appert's Greenbul).

    The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006

  • Fodelmesi, now in his seventies, is stooped, his cheeks and chest sunken.

    The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

  • Fodelmesi, now in his seventies, is stooped, his cheeks and chest sunken.

    The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

  • The record of the late sixties and early seventies is entirely to the contrary.

    Senate Reform 1983

  • The difference between the 1980s and the mid-seventies is in our own recognition, as business people, of this ambivalence, our willingness to admit that it exists, and our desire to do something about it.

    Towards a New Business—Government Understanding in Canada 1981

  • We just saw the uncertain seventies slipping away, after the many shocks of the sixties.

    On a Working Hypothesis 1980

  • If the decade of the nineteen-seventies is to be one of great achievements in Canada I think one of its main hallmarks should be the emergence of a clearer and more knowledgeable consensus in our society about the needs and the wants and aspirations of Canadians to which we should be harnessing our energies and our capacities and our growing resources.

    The Economy Enters a New Decade 1970

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