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"Expectancy" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the country with the longest life expectancy.
A new study suggests that human life expectancy does not yet appear to be reaching a natural limit, with ever more people reaching old age and still maintaining their independence.
Are increases in life expectancy accompanied by a concurrent postponement of disability and functional limitations?
Quitting smoking is one of the best things that you can do to improve overall health and extend life expectancy.
People's life expectancy grows every year.
Life expectancy, gender discrimination and the social system are the main criteria the representatives have taken into account in drawing up the rankings.
As recent research shows, the life expectancy in Japan is consistently increasing.
The average life expectancy in Algeria is 76 years.
Life expectancy is relatively high in Algeria.
Life expectancy has been improving, most notably among the young and the poor.
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[T]he Dukes dissembled their feares, and dissolued their forces, and remained in expectancie what would ensue.
If you foresee not this misery, and the fatall consequence which necessarily must follow such a turn of Fortune, I must leave you to your own will and expectancy […]
[T]his is generally thought to repreſent the Vices of Nero, vvho […] did from the higheſt Expectancy become a ſtubborn and a fooliſh Tyrant.
Renewed hope followed renewed effort; it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out; and then I felt dark indeed.
Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago.
Great Danes have relatively short life expectancies compared to smaller dogs, living for an average of 8-10 years, and males are typically about 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) tall, according to the American Kennel Club.
People born in 2023 are now estimated to live 78.4 years, according to the CDC. That’s still shy of the 78.8-year life expectancy from 2019, but it’s a significant improvement driven by lower death rates in each of the 10 leading causes of death.
O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state […]
[…] Frederic II. King of Prussia, in consequence of an expectancy granted to the house of Brandenburg, by the Emperor Leopold in 1604, took possession of East Friezland […]
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