Later that year, Pete Sampras beat fellow thirty-something Andre Agassi in the U.S. Open final and retired at age 31.

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Three years ago a Forbes magazine colleague living in San Francisco told me that all her thirty-something friends were leaving town.

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He gained plenty of clout in sports circles for having developed the likes of general manager Theo Epstein and other twenty- and thirty-something-year-old talent in the front office.

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I'm a thirty-something, stay-at-home mother of four.

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In an alley off the square, a group of thirty something down-and-outs squabble.

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Scale matters, even if the developer clearly struggled to bring us something with a thirty-year scope.

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Yet something should happen during the thirty-bar postlude that Puccini composed for the ritual.

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