He lived long enough to see the blossoming of abstract expressionism in the early fifties but never paid attention.

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Mr Janeck, in his early fifties and from Chatham in Kent, was working on a contract for the Department for International Development in the West African state.

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While her decisions pleased editors in their early fifties, like Chira and Berke, they did not please editors who were closer to sixty and wondered if their age was held against them.

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Once, inside a building in Baghdad, Petraeus, then in his early fifties, challenged me to race him up the stairs. (He won.) Another time, he dared me to join him on a morning run in the Green Zone, accompanied by an armed guard.

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The population of Detroit, at its peak, in the early nineteen-fifties, was 1.8 million people.

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This harks back to the New Realists school unfolding in France, late fifties, early sixties.

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This was in the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties, in the rural village of Sonobe, about thirty miles northwest of Kyoto, in a river valley surrounded by wooded mountains.

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It was in the fifties or early sixties, she would recall, though she could not remember exactly how old she had been when she arrived with her mother and the rest of her large family, though not her father, whom she did not know and had never met.

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