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forty-something

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  • There is something so charming about the thought that travel, from his perspective, could be not just about going from point A to point B on a map, but from being a forty-something year old man to a child his same age.

    David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son David Kersh 2012

  • Top finishers range from the obvious -- models and people who have graced the cover of Maxim -- to the less obvious -- a certain forty-something British news anchor.

    Heidi Klum, Cameron Diaz Top List Of Most Dangerous Celebrities To Search: McAfee 2011

  • In the centuries that followed, Swedenborg attracted any number of followers, many of them influential, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Butler Yeats, and some obscure, like the fellow who contacted me, a forty-something surveyor, ski resort jack-of-all-trades, and mathematician, who prefers the anonymity of “Mr. Southwest.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • There is something so charming about the thought that travel, from his perspective, could be not just about going from point A to point B on a map, but from being a forty-something year old man to a child his same age.

    David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son David Kersh 2012

  • Those same self-satisfied eyes leave the young cashier, to fall upon the forty-something femme in line behind him.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • In my own circle of thirty - and forty-something college-educated professionals, however, no one uses Twitter much.

    Matthew Yglesias » Time Is Not On Our Side 2010

  • Or the forty-something woman who left her husband whom she described as "a good but oh so boring man," for someone she finally felt passion for.

    SaraKay Smullens: The Complexities of Letting Go SaraKay Smullens 2011

  • Dr. Partlet, an attractive forty-something woman with a trim figure and shoulder length blonde hair, brought Puff back in.

    Puff Sandra Knauf 2011

  • Or the forty-something woman who left her husband whom she described as "a good but oh so boring man," for someone she finally felt passion for.

    SaraKay Smullens: The Complexities of Letting Go SaraKay Smullens 2011

  • Next, Monsieur I'm Too Sexy for this Supermarché, swings his big ego eyes over to the cashier — then back to forty-something me — for a conspiratorial glance.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

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