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Seventy in sentence

94 examples of Seventy in a sentence

So this girl (who looks pretty anorexic, but that seems okay in this movie) wants to make a documentary about fat people from roughly seventy points of view.
Seventy years ago, Japan had been reduced to ashes, and each and every month, citizens of the United States sent and brought gifts like milk for our children, warm sweaters, and even goats.
Seventy years ago, John Maynard Keynes pointed out its fallacy.
Seventy years later, even after America’s massive foreign-policy mistakes in Iraq and elsewhere, and even after Chinese GDP has supposedly caught up with America’s (at least in terms of purchasing power parity), the world remains ready to be led by the US, including on the crucial subjects of trade and IMF reform.
Seventy years later, all that remains of this world are ruined palaces, empty Baroque churches, and synagogues leveled and never rebuilt.
Seventy years ago, at the end of World War II, the Allies recognized that Germany must be given a fresh start.
This IMF approach was abandoned in rich countries about seventy years ago during the Great Depression.
Seventy years ago, he delivered his celebrated call to resistance over the BBC after flying to London from France as it collapsed in June 1940.
But to insist on an arbitrary budgetary position in an economic downturn is to ignore everything we have learned about economics in the past seventy years, risking the well being of millions of workers who are thrown out of employment.
In 2004, seventy years after it began, I set out to retrace the Long March.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, can the bilateral relationship withstand the rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment in Europe?
India, A Land of BelongingNEW DELHI – Seventy years ago this month, at midnight on August 15, 1947, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed India’s independence from the British Empire.
The last time an American government tried to ensure a balanced budget in the face of a recession was over seventy years ago, during the presidency of Herbert Hoover at the outset of the Great Depression.
The Wrong Lesson of MunichNEW YORK – Seventy years ago this month in Munich, the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, signed a document that allowed Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Jews are still being attacked and murdered in European cities.
Seventy percent of France’s prison population is Muslim.
Seventy years ago, it was one of the world's richest countries.
Seventy years ago, 200,000 Soviet soldiers – overwhelmingly male and predominantly Russian – crossed the Volga River to the city of Stalingrad.
Keynes versus the Classics: Round TwoLONDON – The economist John Maynard Keynes wrote The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) to “bring to an issue the deep divergences of opinion between fellow economists which have for the time being almost destroyed the practical influence of economic theory…” Seventy years later, heavyweight economists are still at each other’s throats, in terms almost unchanged from the 1930’s.
The seventy five prisoners of conscience locked up were dissidents, independent journalists, leaders from civil society, and librarians, who had dared to speak the truth openly about what life is like in Cuba.
Even though four prisoners have recently been released, fifty five of the seventy five remain incarcerated in deplorable conditions.
Seventy years ago next month, the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened the darkest chapter in the long history of humanity’s wartime horrors.
You know it's only some seventy versts off.
He had three hundred and seventy roubles in the pocket-book, and therefore the matter could not be ignored.
The length of this cylinder from end to end is exactly seventy meters, and its maximum breadth of beam is eight meters.
Then, steering his Nautilus with consummate dexterity, he skillfully dodged the masses of ice, some of which measured several miles in length, their heights varying from seventy to eighty meters.
"Did I know I should accompany you?""Seventy francs."
But the next day he called on her with a bill for two hundred and seventy francs, not counting the centimes.
Lheureux ran off to his shop, brought back the money, and dictated another bill, by which Bovary undertook to pay to his order on the 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs.
This nuisance, which affected everybody alike, placed M. de Renal under the fortunate obligation to immortalise his administration by a wall twenty feet in height and seventy or eighty yards long.
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