seventies
IPA: sˈɛvʌntiz
noun
- The decade of the 1870s, 1970s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 70 through age 79.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 70 and 79.
adjective
- From or evoking the 71st through 80th years of a century (chiefly the 1970s).
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Examples of "seventies" in Sentences
- The term dates back to the seventies.
- In the seventies, India was a rich country.
- He was fiction editor at Esquire in the seventies.
- The Cannery was demolished in the eighties, late seventies.
- By the end of the seventies, many characters had been recast.
- Forcible eviction of the Kurubas started in the early seventies.
- Fodelmesi, now in his seventies, is stooped, his cheeks and chest sunken.
- The record of the late sixties and early seventies is entirely to the contrary.
- We just saw the uncertain seventies slipping away, after the many shocks of the sixties.
- Most of my collection was levered off walls in the seventies from the top of precipitously-leaning ladders.
- I know that the first thing I think about when I remember the seventies is the Fairchild F-8 microprocessor.
- And you can actually see two species that weren't discoveried until the seventies from the main Antananarivo-Tuléara road (Benson's Rock Thrush and Appert's Greenbul).
- The difference between the 1980s and the mid-seventies is in our own recognition, as business people, of this ambivalence, our willingness to admit that it exists, and our desire to do something about it.
- They are excellent and I have noticed no problems when it comes to covering women writers - the latest volume, covering the seventies, is certainly sympathetic when it covers the rise of feminism in SF: clearly he has no intellectual problem with women in SF.
- If the decade of the nineteen-seventies is to be one of great achievements in Canada I think one of its main hallmarks should be the emergence of a clearer and more knowledgeable consensus in our society about the needs and the wants and aspirations of Canadians to which we should be harnessing our energies and our capacities and our growing resources.
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