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  • While we were actually recording at the stadium, John and eight other lads headed for Tahiti, thirtyfive days at sea.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • But suppose you said it like: Martha, seven times nine minus x is thirtyfive thousand.

    Ulysses 2003

  • If you hold that he, a greying man with two marriageable daughters, with thirtyfive years of life, NEL MEZZO

    Ulysses 2003

  • I put away the skis and for the next thirtyfive years thought no more about the matter.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • Of these college enrollees almost 14 million were undergraduate students and 15.5 million were under the age of thirtyfive.

    The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

  • I also suggested that they needed a chap between thirtyfive and forty (I was forty at the time) with a certain amount of experience in the trade.

    My Life and Hard Wines 1985

  • And now they lie buried beneath the headstones recording brightly in the spring sun the regimental number, name, unit, date, and most poignant of all, age - nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two - and here and there the old man of thirtyfive.

    Ritchie, Charles 1984

  • She slept for thirtyfive minutes and awoke refreshed.

    4.50 From Paddington Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1959

  • The upshot of it all was that on the last expedition we found that we were able to acclimatize so thoroughly to these high altitudes that we could almost dispense with the artificial supply of oxygen, and we found the weight of the oxygen apparatus, some thirtyfive pounds, entirely offset any advantage we got from the gas.

    The Assault on Everest 1928

  • The reasons for removing this vicar are recorded as follows in the last pages of the register, but the motives that prompted him to tear out these thirtyfive parchment pages from the register do not appear: --

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

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