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  • In all my thirty-odd years, I've read less than two hundred novels.

    Canadian Literature and Other Myths 2009

  • In all my thirty-odd years, I've read less than two hundred novels.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • It was a book that opened a new world to many readers, and though in the thirty-odd years that have passed many have explored the archaeology and art of the Dark Ages, no work has completely taken its place.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • "I ran across this fact thirty-odd years ago when I was writing commercials at a radio station and researching material for some cheese-store ads," Lloyd wrote.

    Why are so many signs are misspelled? To keep us amused, no doubt. 2011

  • It was a book that opened a new world to many readers, and though in the thirty-odd years that have passed many have explored the archaeology and art of the Dark Ages, no work has completely taken its place.

    New Releases 2009

  • The PIP was only a tool, we were told, a neural interface to the electronic shroud of data and services that clung to the surface of the planet to a depth of thirty-odd miles.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • To borrow Christopher Lasch's phrase, what we've witnessed for thirty-odd years now is a revolt -- of the elites against the masses -- whether in journalism, or academia or in the corridors of political power.

    Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else Jonathan Weiler 2010

  • Apart from birth narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and a description, in Luke, of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at age twelve, we know nothing of His first thirty-odd years.

    An Amazing First Century 2009

  • Between the time Jacob realized what he had done and the time he began to feel regret, he glanced at his rearview mirror only to see the bum running after his Saab like a man who had not spent the last thirty-odd years drinking rotgut, smoking crack, and living on the street.

    Keep the Change Henry Vauban 2011

  • "I ran across this fact thirty-odd years ago when I was writing commercials at a radio station and researching material for some cheese-store ads," Lloyd wrote.

    Why are so many signs are misspelled? To keep us amused, no doubt. 2011

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