IN The 20-odd years he worked for The Economist, from 1981 to 2004, Keith Colquhoun never raised his voice.
One of the greatest lessons that I've learnt from having studied booms for three hundred odd years, the number one rule is that all booms must bust.
Over the past 20-odd years, the reform has provided a strong motive force and institutional guarantee for housing development by constantly solving problems accruing during the course, summing up new experiences and creating new methods.
He's worked there for twenty-odd years.
We have made unswerving efforts for the accession to the World Trade Organization in the past 10-odd years.
Andorra pays 960 francs to France in odd years, equivalent to more than one hundred dollars, and 430 pesetas to Spain in even years, equivalent to more than two dollars.
I lost my mother when I was four months old. In my sixty odd years, I have never imagined what the love of a mother really is. What I have witnessed today, causes me to choke with emotion and without realizing it, my eyes are already moist.
Over the past ten-odd years, remarkable achievements have been made in military legislation.
FOR 40-odd years now, as Barack Obama lamented on March 30th, American politicians have banged on endlessly about the evils of America's dependence on imported oil, without doing very much about it.
In the 20-odd years since 1957 we have learned bitter lessons in this respect.
Summary of the researches in the past 20-odd years on the central supervision systems of the Qin and Han Dynasties;
In the past 10-odd years China has speeded up urbanization.
The past hundred odd years have seen China live through the development from the change of pre| modern value system to the construction of modern values—— focusing on the three basic domains of value in terms of man and nature, individual and group, and morality and utility.
We were both studying in the local private school in the village. Our teacher was an old mandarin scholar of about fifty odd years. It was perhaps because he was a mandarin scholar that he had significantly more students.
Flash ahead 30-odd years.
Chairman Mao wondered if we could carry out economic development within a period shorter than twenty-odd years and avoid making major mistakes and suffering serious setbacks.
That was bad enough, what with the nuisance of 300-odd years of precedent affirming the right of the press to report whatever MPs say or do.
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