Seventies

Grandma Moses started painting when she was in her seventies. A late bloomer indeed!

The invention of the mobile phone took place in the seventies, and it became accessible to all in the eighties and nineties.

A lot has changed since the seventies, although long hair has still not quite gone out of fashion.

Tom died in his seventies.

If I want to have sex in my seventies, I have the right to a place that provides me that pleasure.

Macramé was popular during the seventies.

Trump is in his seventies now.

In the seventies, the Japanese economy made a remarkable leap.

The study of people in their seventies and early eighties shows that consistent performance of usual daily activities such as stair climbing is associated with a much lower risk of death.

Tom's mother was an English teacher in a Kabyle village in the seventies.

I'm so bored of this decade, the seventies can't come soon enough.

Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.

'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii] with six pure white petals of the same length.

My grandma met her third wife when they were both in their seventies.

You don't need your parka today, it's in the seventies.

I know the theme of the school dance is "The 1970s" but is covering the walls, floor, and ceiling with tie-dye too seventies?

Among rock critics and journalists, there is an overwhelming bias to view the late sixties in a positive light and seventies music as an unfortunate decline into commercialism at the expense of musical authenticity.