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In June 1843 it was reported that about seventy tons of oil and several tons of whalebone had been secured that season.
It felt as if he was crawling although the speedometer showed seventy miles an hour.
Overall, seventy percent of pharmaceuticals now being used come from or are derived from natural products.
The engineers first dug a trench three feet wide and seventy feet deep or all the way down to the bedrock around the entire sixteen acres.
I have ever seen, and it was a further twenty minutes before the fish was finally boated, a magnificent specimen of about seventy pounds.
Carrying a small lantern, she mounted the seventy stairs to her husband's chamber.
Deserters have gone without monographic treatment for nearly seventy years.
A sidelight is shed by a broken inscription which archaeologists discovered some seventy years ago at Delphi.
Not, mind you, that Ken and Paul can reasonably be expected to do it all over the seventy minutes.
Just seventy pounds of glass in the form of optical fibers can transmit as much telephone traffic as one ton of copper.
There are seventy thousand new trade book titles each year in the U.S. alone.
But believe you me, that silly seventy dollars will fit in mighty nice this time of year in my cash-flow.
Even though we were only going thirty miles an hour the other guy was going seventy.
At the age of seventy, his blue eyes still twinkle under a mop of corkscrew curls.
At the age of seventy he is co-hosting a daily chat show on daytime television.
At the age of seventy, as he mentions in his Vassar lecture, Jorge Carrera Andrade had come full circle.
Every woman over the age of seventy in Victoria seemed to have the same handwriting.
Re-discovered at age seventy he sang with the same vibrancy that had won him success earlier, but this didn't happen instantly.
I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation.
It was only when she began, at the age of seventy, to read them for professional reasons, that she allowed herself to be seduced.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At seventy the squama of the temporal bone unites with the parietal, and at eighty the entire cranium has become a single bone.
The ice field of Europe was much smaller, measuring about seven hundred and seventy thousand square miles.
This is whitherward despair can lead a young person, whose blood is not so quiescent as if he were seventy.
The skins of the sea otter are much prized by the Chinese, who pay for them from seventy to one hundred roubles a-piece.
The Distance from the inhabitance is about seventy miles, as we conceave by our Journeys.
From 1349 to 1716 seventy years are marked in the annals of Styria as plague years.
He was born within seventy miles of that very spot, but had not the smallest notion before, of such a holiday as Pinkster.
A single genus, acer, includes from sixty to seventy species, widely distributed over the Northern Hemisphere.
He did not relish the idea of a sixty or seventy mile drive in the blizzard.
Prior to the loss of these 6000 men, cuesta's army had been 34,000 strong, with seventy guns.
After some talk he agreed to take seventy krans as his share, the rest to be given to his nephew at the end of the journey.
In our day, if you travel by river from the southernmost of these three cut-offs to the northernmost, you go only seventy miles.
Presently Thrasybulus, with about seventy followers, sallied out from Thebes, and made himself master of the fortress of phyle.
Supt. Doherty assembled 150 men in Randolph street and seventy wagons employed on First ward streets.
The wild steed sought to fling up his head to shake off this anguishing weight of seventy odd pounds.
Information was also forthcoming that the width of the ore-body was more than seventy feet.
The kana13 is a syllabary of forty-seven letters, which by diacritical marks, may be increased to seventy.
But let us suppose that you, my dear sir, are one of those seventy thousand subscribers and are by profession a tattooer.
The fan palm, called here palma real or royal palm, rises from seventy to eighty feet in height.
It was a lodgepole pine sixty or seventy feet away and several feet lower than my stand, on the side of a moraine.
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