How To Use Seventies In A Sentence

If Estelle is in her eighties but looks a good deal younger, then why wouldn’t “Susan” just assume she’s in her sixties or seventies? CHECKOUT • by Sonia Suedfeld
It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
Paul took up the post of County Accountant in the mid-Seventies, leaving for a short spell, only to return to take up the post of Finance Officer.
His favourites are biographies of sixties and seventies musicians, and pop and rock stars.
Plant shot to fame in the seventies as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin.

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They stonewalled me but I found out about a guy who had worked for them back in the seventies. CORMORANT
It is an act of worship to the sixties and seventies - to flares and body shirts and all that glitters.
The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking.
He's very active considering he's in his seventies.
Players are marking better now than they have been since the seventies.
He was also involved in rowing for many years and had few equals in that sport especially when he rowed in the Bluebird in the late sixties and early seventies.
Entering, you are confronted with what appears to be a blow-up of a Seventies newsprint photograph of a star.
Many women will remember throwaway panties from the Sixties and Seventies - and by all accounts they were only too glad to dispose of them for good.
A buried yen to ski competitively came back in the early seventies, when the idea of a professional racing circuit in the States took hold.
It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties!
After the house was demolished in the Seventies for new housing, the remaining grounds ran wild until all that was left of the original wood was self-seeded sycamore trees and dead elms.
Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student. THE EXECUTION
The area continued as a centre for music into the Seventies and beyond, albeit on a much smaller scale.
If it had been, a particularly vicious correction must have occurred to turn Britain back into the timorous, conservative country it became in the Seventies.
I have known Ted since the late seventies and during that time-shared many a laugh and an equal amount of pints.
Ancient Celts believed in a giant man, the Greeks observed some basic shapes, the word "fractal" was coined in the Seventies. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies, and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date.
In the late-seventies, there was a concerted legal attempt at what is called ‘craft severance.’
Aping the seventies, this bar is for lounging and proves very popular among the more sophisticated of nighthawks prior to later excesses of the night.
Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form.
Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.
For example, the stemware was the late seventies versions of “white” and “red.” Augieland
Presented without changing the realistic and semi-professional style of the Seventies, the play begins with the bell ringing out, typical of the ‘professional’ stage.
He made his best films in his seventies ; it was for him a real Indian summer.
Before your time Iain, but up to the early seventies, you could rent a bedsitter or unfurnished flat for £4 in the West End. Happy days. Get Your Property Licence or We'll 'Get' You Says Government
A few steps away from Wanda's window, a short balding man in his seventies stood at the front door of the DMV arguing with the security guard. Waiting for Wanda
I have one customer, a chap in his seventies, an ex-engineer who collects knives and swords; he owns more than 400 of them, all different.
His thoughts turned to Echelon, the supersecret program started by the National Security Agency back in the seventies. Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2
In the seventies, it seemed that a light entertainment show on television was not complete without a clutch of catchphrases.
In the Seventies, the Spanish ballad was reborn, with shoot-outs and drug-runners replacing bandoleros and revolution.
In the eighties and the nineties, unlike the seventies and for non-top forty bands today, they cared more about conformance which is how records got sold. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Flared trousers were a fashion statement of the seventies.
Ringo has kept a home in LA since the mid-Seventies, luxuriating in the climate, the blissfully opulent lifestyle, and the presence of scores of fellow musicians.
I used to listen to John Peel in the late seventies and early eighties when radio one was still on AM only and you had to tune it exactly or you got Radio Moscow interfering.
These Seventies coup s turn up at auctions like bad teeth at an infant's school dental check.
I'd heard of payola as I entered the music business professionally in the mid seventies, but naïvely thought it would never apply to me.
Seventies designs, in contrast, were monochromatic and tonally organised, texts rationalised and regular.
Seventies, to develop extensive Bohai Sea base construction established a transport company.
A magnet for visiting stylists seeking inspiration, the market features some of the best vintage Sixties and Seventies clothing to be found anywhere in the world.
In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
This is not the world of the sixties and seventies, when the dottily impassioned swore that, within X years, the world would end in fire and many rational folk believed them. The New Republic - All Feed
They're all 6 feet tall and in their sixties or seventies and they're spirited and feisty.
It seems perfectly apt to find that during the Seventies, Gibson made part of his living as "what antique dealers called a 'picker'", hunting through charity shops and thrift stores for valuable items that could be sold up the chain to collectors. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
After I'd done my comedy act during the late seventies, I started writing a screenplay for a movie.
He was well into his seventies and though he had been a real force at Democratic conventions going back to 1948, we could see that this was not what he had bargained for. The Good Fight
The definitive account of the evening was written by gonzo journalist Mike Shropshire in the hilarious memoir of his stint covering the Rangers in the mid-Seventies, Seasons in Hell.
The seventies were very sleek and empty, more concerned with structure, form, and a certain kind of ascetic rigorousness.
Indeed, Mr Ross, now in his seventies, is still at his desk, working as a barrister taking briefs.
Now it's back in style and Stanley, in his seventies, has been picked up again by the label.
The idea of a huge ring road around the city was abandoned in the late Seventies by the former West Yorkshire County Council.
Even in his late seventies, Louis is still haranguing his son about his attitude towards Israel, and Allen is responding with the same mixture of would-be facts and baffled fury.
The whirligig of fashion trends dictated that the look of Zandra back in the Seventies is exactly the look of 2002-gypsy flounces, boots and floaty hippie blouses and dippy hemlines.
It was the early seventies and there were a lot of black and white photos of models in bejeweled sweaters and knits infused with shimmery threads.
We realise we might be the youngest people here - many of the clientele enjoyed the Seventies as they happened - but we are unperturbed.
There's a strain of feminism that comes out of the women's health movement of the seventies that is deeply suspicious of reproductive technology.
By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.
There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes.
Top fashion finds: anything mod, trench coats, Eighties ruching, vintage Chanel and Adolfo tweedy jackets, thirties movie star silk charmeuse gowns, seventies high-waist jeans and denim skirts a la Chloe.
The upright, wardrobe-like posture and rectangular headlights of the seventies Mercs speak to me of a style and distinction that is somewhat missing from the cars of today.
Nevertheless, the modern relationship between Canada and Bulgaria continues to be affected by immigration and visa issues but the context is inverse to what it was in the sixties and seventies.
She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Plant shot to fame in the seventies as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin.
The majority of the brown trout had been stocked as fingerlings as the reservoir filled in the early seventies.
The West made impressive strides in improving energy efficiency after the huge rises in oil prices during the seventies.
Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim.
Passengers made the journey aboard the vintage buses, including several veteran drivers and clippies in their seventies and eighties.
In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable.
He was an icon to many of my Belfast school friends in the late seventies who were starting their own bands.
The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period.
From the late seventies through today, the priority list of undergraduates questions has changed considerably: Where can I get in?
I'm so seventies, originally uploaded by Soozs. swimwear item number 1, the rashie. Soozs
The owners of the house were questioned, but they turned out to be a retired couple in their seventies and were soon exonerated. AFTERMATH
A striking feature of the songs is that unlike much contemporary Indigenous song writing, the fettling gangs of Torres Strait Islanders in the sixties, seventies and eighties did not write predominately about home. Eastern Torres Strait Islander Songs
As the seventies progressed, the center of gravity of much of urban life seemed to shift.
They're all 6 feet tall and in their sixties or seventies and they're spirited and feisty.
There was a property boom in the seventies.
Thus it was that, early in the year, among many other fairly dodgy frames on offer in M&S, I found myself contemplating a big pair of mock tortoiseshell Seventies-influenced shades.
Besides his stated duties for the Atlantic he found time during the seventies to edit a group of autobiographies, and later to write book introductions by the dozen; he translated modern Italian poets; he scanned the entire literary horizon for new planetaries; he was one of the most widely-read of Americans. Chapter 6. Howells and Realism. Section 2. William Dean Howells
And above all, what if those bands aren't the overripe gods of the sixties and seventies, but the inescapable products of them, either in worship or in reaction or both?
By the late seventies the band's popularity was beginning to wane.
When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers.
Sexy bandeau bikinis, some featuring gorgeous Liberty-esque prints, will give the season a Seventies edge while the bottoms, cut low on the hip, are more forgiving than ever.
This was in the late seventies, when we were supposed to be living in dorms.
The church adjoins narrow cobbled alleyways to the south, but hideous seventies offices to east and west.
Loulou de la Falaise was the archetypal muse, the inspiration for Yves Saint Laurent in the Seventies.
Then in the seventies an almost complete fossil of another labyrinthodont turned up in rocks that were definitely much younger than 250 million years old.
Even without the benefit of macramé, retro seventies' disco chic never looked so hilariously square.
She was quite prepared to speak extempore for an hour, when well in her seventies.
I thought about my parents, now in their early seventies, still hale but voyaging steadily into old age.
He began his investigations into the constitution of the cell nucleus at the end of the seventies, and in the nineties he turned more and more to the study of the proteins, the alterations in proteins during transformation into peptone, the effects of a phenetol diet on the urine, the peptonic components of the cells, the simplest proteins, etc. Albrecht Kossel - Biography
The girls were wearing them along with fat clunky shoes that looked like malformed elevator shoes from the seventies.
All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed.
With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student. THE EXECUTION
From the early seventies, the programmes started at 4.10, filling a ninety-minute period.
With his lank, greasy hair, dirty jeans and John Lennon spectacles he looks like a seventies student. THE EXECUTION
He looked in his seventies, a wrinkled, spidery little man with four long grey hairs, standing straight up on the top of his bald head. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
As one who began driving regularly in Mexico in the early seventies, the reason for this time-honored recommendation is the fact that ranchos are unfenced and animals were often loose on the roads. Oh! Ouch! �Ay! The first really bad news from Mexico
Until recently, the seventies were a widely hated era, and with wit and humor, Boogie Nights reminds us why.
Unless this generation is particularly sensitive, it doesn't explain why in the sixties and seventies we all walked around in jeans so tight that questions about dressing to the right or left would have been unnecessary.
Or that certain rock records (hello, late seventies?) aren't among the most soporific music ever devised.
By the late seventies the band's popularity was beginning to wane.
OGXers had a front-row seat for a Reagan Revolution, during that they saw "liberal" turn a irreverent term, as most Americans recoiled from a assorted ransom movements (sexual, feminist, gay, ethnic) of a Sixties as well as Seventies. The Original Generation X, 1954-63 by Joshua Glenn
the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection
Story: The story begins in mid-seventies Kerala where William - in his late thirties, is a priest in the solitary church in a small coastal town.
Township School also began to experience a dramatic fall in the roll, from 1200 in the mid seventies to 500 in the early nineties.
This summer's crinkled, patterned and bejewelled gypsy skirts trigger something powerful in anyone who was young in the Sixties and early Seventies.
In Italy I used to put this song in playlist for Funk/Seventies stuff. Prisencolinensinainciusol
By the seventies the suit was dead, kept for weddings, funerals and job interviews.
It died in the seventies when governments adopted Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC.
Both in their seventies, they are contadini - peasant farmers - who have suffered from the recession in farming but who are making the best of what they have.
He makes some quite acid comments about the seventies mystical counterculture which make for very amusing reading now.
That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies.
By the seventies the suit was dead, kept for weddings, funerals and job interviews.
Though they were existent in the seventies and eighties, an estimated 5000 cults in the United States hunger for our youth, worship, and money.
It was a tattered, ring-bound thing from the early seventies with a lurid photo of some hippy, with a goatee beard and two-foot long sideburns, sitting cross-legged on the cover.
But underneath lie a collection of catchy melodies and hooks evoking in turns the Beach Boys, Beck or early seventies avant-pop.
The sponsor may not have been too happy but Ann later credited the commercial with revitalizing her career in the seventies.
I am not for one moment suggesting that the people behind the masks were little more than wannabe hardmen and rebel song-loving culchie geeks out to get that same sort of thrill from seventies terrorist gear that similar oddballs in other parts of the world get from throwing on some Waffen SS kit. Archive 2009-08-01
What’s more, it’s jauntier, more likeable Keane: piano-led indie pop with a pretty melody and an obvious debt to seventies soft rock. Boo-Boo Album Of The Week: Primal Scream, ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up’
The West made impressive strides in improving energy efficiency after the huge rises in oil prices during the seventies.
The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.
When the Westingshire Brewery took over the Goat and Compasses in the mid-seventies they favoured faux nineteenth century horse brasses and a liberal smearing of oak veneer.
In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork.
I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies.
This summer's crinkled, patterned and bejewelled gypsy skirts trigger something powerful in anyone who was young in the Sixties and early Seventies.
In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off.
Ok, so stuffed eggs are a bit naff and seventies, but they still taste good!
Richie still wears the sunglasses, headband and long hair of a late-seventies tennis pro.
Jim was the `sixties version, Antony the later ` seventies or `eighties version. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Since in the seventies additional sensors like the statoscope and later on the application of differential GPS were introduced to measure the elements of the sensor orientation in a direct way.
It was sufficiently bizarre to see men and women in their late sixties and seventies tottering around the decks wearing eye patches, death's head do-rags, and plastic hooks while muttering, ‘Avast, matey!’
In the early seventies an interesting development on our operational side was the emergence of illegal immigrant running by sea.
The best stuff is from the early seventies, when the murky, basic production and tight rhythm section set up a selection of exciting guitar thrashes.
Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties.
However, taste, smell and touch can remain fairly constant well into our seventies and eighties, provided that we don't neglect them.
'kludgy'? what are you, some programmer from the seventies? BSNYC Product Review: Look 566 Road Bicycle
It's a slight premise, but it's played for laughs throughout, pastiching not only the TV show, but the buddy genre and the Seventies in general.
Then, in her middle seventies, she stopped, resolving to use the years she had left to pursue God through the solitary practice of contemplative prayer.
By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.
In the late Seventies and Eighties the production of westerns declined to the point that several critics affirmed the death of the genre.
OGXers had a front-row chair for a Reagan Revolution, during which they saw "liberal" become a irreverent term, as many Americans recoiled from a various ransom movements (sexual, feminist, gay, ethnic) of a Sixties as well as Seventies. Archive 2009-11-01
Bill is played by David Carradine, American television's kung fu icon of the seventies.
Their meticulously crafted melodies and tight harmonies recreate that awesome sound of the seventies.
The composer may be in his seventies, but never before has he used the word 'concerto' in the title of a work, and never before has he written for solo violin. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
In the seventies we were racked with economic problems like huge inflation and double-digit unemployment.
The West made impressive strides in improving energy efficiency after the huge rises in oil prices during the seventies.
Indeed, it could fairly be said to have started the long period of unrelieved Celtic supremacy which characterised the late sixties and early seventies.
I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties.
Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way.
Gone are the handkerchief codes of the seventies, where a hankie in the left pocket indicated a guy was a top, and the right indicated a bottom.
In the late seventies we conducted a pilot evaluation of video tele-conferencing for a group of engineers building a new manufacturing plant.
Second, the band Planxty incorporated a number of Eastern European influences into their sound, most notably modal chord structures and a Greek plucked instrument called the bouzouki, when they emerged onto the scene in the early seventies. The Bothy Band
Richard jumps in, with memories of his parents drinking Blue Nun and Matéus rosé in the Seventies.
We are back rather in the chequered circumstances of the seventies, in which there was no clear pattern of domestic political alignments in the group.
Though the subject matter is somewhat similar, this is a straight drama, devoid of comic moments and Seventies retro.
The West made impressive strides in improving energy efficiency after the huge rises in oil prices during the seventies.
In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.
Hong Kong in the late seventies was an exhilarating place to be. TIME OF THE WOLF
Bill must be in his mid seventies now.
RACHEL WEISZ skips into the cafe like someone from a Seventies perfume ad, with her belted mac and tweed cap and tumbling raven curls.
In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm.
I used to do photography seriously, and even wrote a book on photography in schools back in the seventies.
Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on.
Karl is a serious musician who missed out on the nihilism of the Seventies punk and largely retained Sixties hippy values.
Nowhere near as iconic as their American cousins, perhaps, but in a cartoon landscape as US-dominated as the 'Cartoon Family' one, this late-seventies offering, voiced by the excellent Gay Soper, has to be one of the most iconic British contributions to the genre …. The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle
Long hair for men was all the rage in the seventies.
Now in his seventies, he came across as a fairly childlike character - driven by his curiosity.
In the seventies everyone seemed to live in a trailer camp or in the crevice of a mountain.
I think the call for bras is successful because it is similar to the burning of bras in the seventies - each act being a response to male oppression / patriarchy.
But the Seventies were more than a cocktail of way-out fashions and disco dancing.
When looking to describe her contribution to the Sixties and Seventies, the word "groupie" - perhaps "super-groupie" - might spring to mind. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
It was the precursor to the Seventies with their hopeless mismanagement of government and spinelessness towards terrorism.
Puerto Vallarta is quite a unique town that has maintained its quaint atmosphere regardless of its huge rise in population from the early seventies to today, especially the down town area and south of town. Which One is the Real Vallarta
Hailing, as he did, from Memphis, having grown up during the Purist tensions of the sixties and seventies, he was already sensitized to the rhetoric.
The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
In the Seventies a new type of music originated in Northern Brazil - it was mix of salsa, merengue and reggae music.
They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain.
My late husband was a quartermaster in the Seventies. The Sun
There was more to the Seventies, I thought, than just Blue Peter and flared loons - although of course the temptation to have a bit of fun with all that was irresistible as well.
Women constitute almost 58 percent of the total work-force, up from 45 percent in the seventies.
In the seventies and eighties there was a motorway service station chain called Happy Eater.
Litter, halternecks, flicked hair, aviator glasses, embroidered denim, lip gloss and even hot pants are the latest trademarks of the Seventies to be enjoying a revival of fortune.
In the late seventies, when Ian was starting out as a pro, he idolized Watson.
They weren't recent photos: judging from the garish colours and white frames they dated from the sixties or early seventies. THE EXECUTION
The early seventies took him west to San Francisco and a diet of Irish music sessions.
Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?
The Bradys sport the same tragic early-seventies quiffs, boast wardrobes packed with polyester flares, and talk in absurd sitcom gagspeak.
It was the early seventies, the height of love-ins and hippies.
Homosexuality was his other guilty secret, which he kept hidden from public sight until he was in his seventies.
The film, which is everywhere is supposed to be by by the late Felix Rodriguez y Fuentes, a Spanish naturalist and falconer, for a TV series (maybe in the seventies?) Eagle Predation
The younger bragged he was on eight tablets a day for angina, but the other in his late seventies swallowed 40 for various aches and pains!
They say she brought underground chops to classic songcraft, reconciled seventies soul with nineties grit.
His father shakes my hand with an unusually strong grip for a short, wiry man in his seventies.

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