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  • suffix Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years.

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Examples

  • According to the International Center for Education Statistics, in 2009, the average U.S. mathematics literacy score for 15 -year-old students fell below the average score of students in more than 30 developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Korea, to name a few.

    Priyamvada Natarajan: Close the Math Gap Priyamvada Natarajan 2011

  • According to the International Center for Education Statistics, in 2009, the average U.S. mathematics literacy score for 15 -year-old students fell below the average score of students in more than 30 developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Korea, to name a few.

    Priyamvada Natarajan: Close the Math Gap Priyamvada Natarajan 2011

  • Among the cheering crowd was Sabrine Jarrarih, a 22 -year-old student.

    Palestine's UN bid boosts support for Mahmoud Abbas 2011

  • Q: I'm looking for a recommendation for my daughter, a 24 -year-old nursing student.

    Me & My Car 2011

  • According to the International Center for Education Statistics, in 2009, the average U.S. mathematics literacy score for 15 -year-old students fell below the average score of students in more than 30 developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Korea, to name a few.

    Priyamvada Natarajan: Close the Math Gap Priyamvada Natarajan 2011

  • According to the International Center for Education Statistics, in 2009, the average U.S. mathematics literacy score for 15 -year-old students fell below the average score of students in more than 30 developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Korea, to name a few.

    Priyamvada Natarajan: Close the Math Gap Priyamvada Natarajan 2011

  • According to the International Center for Education Statistics, in 2009, the average U.S. mathematics literacy score for 15 -year-old students fell below the average score of students in more than 30 developed countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Korea, to name a few.

    Priyamvada Natarajan: Close the Math Gap Priyamvada Natarajan 2011

  • The thirty-five -year-old Young was a graduate of the University of Idaho, where he had been a star basketball player and acquired the nickname “Brig.”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • John Page put the situation more concisely, if indelicately, in a letter to Ely in 1947, when Page was reclamation commissioner and the eighty-five -year-old Ely had finally been forced into retirement.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The thirty-five -year-old Young was a graduate of the University of Idaho, where he had been a star basketball player and acquired the nickname “Brig.”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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