Twenty Nine

According to the General Social Survey, people who had at least some college education remained a minority of the population aged eighteen to twenty-nine until the 1990s. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Her children are now ages twenty-nine, twenty-four and thirteen. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

For the past twenty-nine years, Flo and volunteers across the country have sewn recycled cloth into sleeping bags that help the homeless survive. ❋ Deborah Swiss (2011)

When basic training was over and his squad was distributed to bases throughout the country for the remaining twenty-nine months of their service, Luke found that, unlike some of his unlucky companions who had been sent to the border with North Korea, he was reassigned to a kitchen. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think it took about three months the first time for me to wear size twenty-nine jeans. ❋ Alison J. Sweeney (2011)

Reported attacks in Ingushetia rose from five in 2004 to 227 in 2008; those in Dagestan increased from twenty-nine to eighty-nine in the same period. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

Now twenty-nine, chef de cuisine Eduard Xatruch has been with the restaurant since he was seventeen. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

The Old: Okay, so Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua can hardly be described as 'old' at a mere twenty-nine years of age. ❋ Elliot Worsell (2011)

I literally turned off the router ports for twenty-eight or twenty-nine days a month. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

It was June of 2009, just ten months before a gas explosion in Massey's Upper Big Branch mine killed twenty-nine miners and showed the nation how Massey Coal plays the appeals game to evade enforcement on the company's thousands of safety violations. ❋ Anne Butterfield (2010)

I entered Stanford Business School twenty-nine years ago as a naive twenty-one year old, the youngest in my class. ❋ Chip Conley (2011)

He was twenty-nine years old and had graduated before all of them. ❋ Cara Hoffman (2011)