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Example sentences for "sixty years"

  • If America has not yet reached her height after three hundred years of striving, she ought not to be impatient with the Negro after only sixty years of opportunity.

  • For the first fifty or sixty years of the life of the colonies the introduction of Negroes was slow; the system of white servitude furnished most of the labor needed, and England had not yet won supremacy in the slave-trade.

  • Sixty years afterwards we still suffer from the KuKlux solution of the problem.

  • In the Gazette of January 30 appeared a letter referring to these articles, headed "Sixty Years Ago," and signed "One who has walked four miles to the Parish School.

  • He must receive its nomination now or never, as he was then upward of sixty years of age, and his vigorous constitution had shown signs of decay.

  • I know you will think, if you don't say, 'What impudence it is for this childless old bachelor of sixty years of age to undertake to give me advice!

  • L'ENVOI It is not without regret that I lay down my pen, and cease work on the Reminiscences of Sixty Years, of my life.

  • The merchant labours all his life, and the hope which leads him on is perhaps wealth: well, at sixty years of age he attains wealth; is that the reward of sixty years of toil?

  • To them fifty or sixty years seem a treasure inexhaustible.

  • Among the Tartaric populations, however, this is a cycle of sixty years (12 x 5); of the Indians we have already spoken.

  • Julian year, such a cycle must have been indispensable when that of sixty years was in use, and consequently must have been employed by the Chinese, or, at all events, have been known to those from whom they borrowed the latter.

  • This is not incompatible with, the allegation that it is "the era of sixty years of Hoangho.

  • Egyptians computed by the era of sixty years of Hoangho.

  • It is to be noted that this period of sixty years is full of events which caused the greatest suffering to the Popes, were unceasingly deplored by them, and resisted to the utmost of their power.

  • Now, when I am sixty years old, I wish that I had received several such boxes on the ear, for the first was no use.

  • He is sixty years old, and he has worked for 'development,' but he has not been able to develop himself.

  • Now that I am sixty years old, it occurred to me to see what sort of a book Strauss's Leben Jesu is before I depart.

  • Blakeslee a few days since, he related an incident which happened when he was a boy, sixty years ago, and lived on a farm in Litchfield.

  • Sixty years ago, a man by the name of Gideon Roberts got up a few in the old way: he was an excellent mechanic and made a good article.

  • Sixty years ago, a few men with clumsy tools supplied the demand; at the present time, with systematized labor and complicated machinery, it gives employment to thousands of men, occupying some of the largest factories of New England.

  • For fifty or sixty years "Ortonville" has been linked with this devout hymn, and still maintains its fitting fellowship.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attack from; easily explained; economic importance; experimental philosophy; fair sirs; former navigators; good portrait; national independence; natural state; other purpose; severe engagement; sixty degrees; sixty dollars; sixty feet; sixty grains; sixty guns; sixty miles; sixty millions; sixty pounds; sixty thousand; sixty yards; sixty years; this old; von den; white buffalo; would produce