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  • The emerging church is a loose confederation of congregations bent on attracting twenty- and thirty-somethings.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • They began with him slowly walking down the red-carpeted aisle as his followers pinned ten-, twenty-, fifty-, and sometimes hundred-dollar bills onto his robe.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Today's younger poets too rarely read poetry in translation, it seems; that's a pity, as the sort of generative flattening of language necessitated by translation would likely appeal to the aesthetic instincts of many self-aware twenty- and thirty-something poets.

    Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

  • It's so much more than "that show about the bigot," as I have heard it described by many twenty- and thirty-something television critics and reporters who have never bothered to watch a single episode.

    Ed Martin: Ten Noteworthy Shows From 2011 You Won't See on Other Ten-Best Lists Ed Martin 2011

  • One, for not following instructions to provide his full stats; and, two, for being stupid enough to think a twenty- to thirty-minute dicking is something spectacular.

    Deep Throat Diva Cairo 2011

  • Today's younger poets too rarely read poetry in translation, it seems; that's a pity, as the sort of generative flattening of language necessitated by translation would likely appeal to the aesthetic instincts of many self-aware twenty- and thirty-something poets.

    Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

  • It's so much more than "that show about the bigot," as I have heard it described by many twenty- and thirty-something television critics and reporters who have never bothered to watch a single episode.

    Ed Martin: Ten Noteworthy Shows From 2011 You Won't See on Other Ten-Best Lists Ed Martin 2011

  • I looked up from my magazine to watch a twenty- something female contestant cry.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

  • It's so much more than "that show about the bigot," as I have heard it described by many twenty- and thirty-something television critics and reporters who have never bothered to watch a single episode.

    Ed Martin: Ten Noteworthy Shows From 2011 You Won't See on Other Ten-Best Lists Ed Martin 2011

  • I looked up from my magazine to watch a twenty- something female contestant cry.

    Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

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