middle years
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The middle years in college, that’s when I decided I wanted to be a coach — just seeing the relationships these guys have with us.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Casey spent his middle years of high school in special-education schools, which Yarullina thinks only worsened his issues.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2022
“To an unexpected degree, the study of the children of the Great Depression followed a trajectory of resilience into the middle years of life,” wrote Glen Elder, the author of that research.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
Claire Foy played Britain’s young Queen Elizabeth II for the first two seasons, with Olivia Colman stepping in to chart her middle years last season and in the 10 new episodes out Sunday.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
In the middle years of the seventeenth century experience stopped being something that accorded naturally with the statements of previous authorities and became a caustic solvent of fabulous beliefs.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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