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She would be accompanied by two OSS colleagues: Dr. Cora DuBois, a distinguished forty-year-old anthropologist, with the face and bearing to match, who would be heading up the Research and Analysis Division; and Eleanor “Ellie” Thirty, an eager twenty-two-year-old secretary.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“Although not overly handsome in a classical sense,” we read, “the forty-year-old Langdon had what his female colleagues referred to as an ‘erudite’ appeal — wisp of gray in his thick brown hair, probing blue eyes, an arrestingly deep voice, and the strong, carefree smile of a collegiate athlete.”
Science 2009
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This is the story of a forty-year-old salary man who quits his job to pursue his dream of becoming a manga artist — and the family that has to put up with him.
I want them all 2009
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Most noticeably, the bullpen got a major overhaul, as young but inconsistent stoppers Rafael Soriano and Mike Gonzalez were replaced by a thirty-eight-year-old closer (Billy Wagner) and a forty-year-old set-up man (Takashi Saito).
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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Most noticeably, the bullpen got a major overhaul, as young but inconsistent stoppers Rafael Soriano and Mike Gonzalez were replaced by a thirty-eight-year-old closer (Billy Wagner) and a forty-year-old set-up man (Takashi Saito).
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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A forty-year-old man I know is an only child who lives with his seventy-year-old mother.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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A forty-year-old man I know is an only child who lives with his seventy-year-old mother.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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The San Pablo jumper was a forty-year-old man with a well-chiseled face, strong eyebrows, taut skin and overgrown well-kept salt-and-pepper hair.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land.
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell: Book summary 2010
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She would be accompanied by two OSS colleagues: Dr. Cora DuBois, a distinguished forty-year-old anthropologist, with the face and bearing to match, who would be heading up the Research and Analysis Division; and Eleanor “Ellie” Thirty, an eager twenty-two-year-old secretary.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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