Example sentences for: twenties

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  • A link between high levels of homocysteine, a sulfur-containing amino acid, and heart disease was first suggested in the 1960s, when it became clear that patients with inborn errors of homocysteine metabolism were prone to develop severe cardiovascular disease in their teens and twenties.

  • How do they manage to do mental arithmetic with numbers such as quatre-vingtdix-sept four twenties plus seventeen and soixante-quinze sixty plus fifteen, which require mental agility just to translate them into the figures 97 and 75?

  • The turbulent twenties gave Berlin a special place in the world’s popular imagination.

  • Von Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (The Iron Foundry, 1875) is a striking portrayal of industrial labor, and Oskar Kokoschka’s painting, Pariser Platz (1926), recalls the bustle around the Brandenburg Gate during the twenties.

  • In a recent survey by CARE-Nepal, almost half of those who came to the voluntary counselling and testing centre at the Doti District Hospital in Silgadhi, a conflict-affected area, during June–July 2004 tested positive for HIV, and almost all of those tested positive were widows in their twenties and thirties [35].


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