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twenties and grew
The company grew out of efforts by two completely inexperienced men in their late twenties, neither having a formal education applicable to, or experience in, manufacturing or selling our type of articles.
This trend was apparent in government statistics for the 1986-87 period: the proportion of people fifty years old or older living in farming communities grew from 28. 7 % in 1986 to 30. 6 % in 1987, while the number of people in their twenties living in farming communities declined from 11. 3 % to 10. 8 %.
She would often interrupt him when he was working, and the two grew increasingly miserable throughout the twenties.
They both grew up there, then left when they were in their twenties and returned in their fifties.
He grew up in Perth and in his teens and twenties, worked with shearing teams for 17 years.

twenties and older
The nationwide percentages for people fifty years old or older and in their twenties were, in 1986, 14. 9 % and 20. 2 %, respectively ( see Agriculture, ch.
People with liver problems tend to come to medical attention earlier, generally as children or teenagers, than those with neurological and psychiatric symptoms, who tend to be in their twenties or older.
During his twenties, Marc was involved in a number of stormy relationships, including a years-long affair with Annette von Eckardt, a married antique dealer who was nine years older than him.
At the 2004 Olympics, both the second place American team and the third placed Russians were captained by women in their mid twenties ; several other teams, including Australia, France and Canada, had many older gymnasts.
In two adjacent cells, there is an older Algerian-looking man and a handsome convict in his twenties.
The " new woman " was in fashion throughout the twenties ; this meant a woman who rejected the pieties ( and often the politics ) of the older generation, smoked and drank in public, had casual sex, and embraced consumer culture.
At the beginning of the fad, they were worn primarily by young women in their teens and twenties, and occasionally by younger girls, older women, and ( particularly during the disco era ) by young men.
In its original incarnation, PC Zone recognised that its audience consisted largely of males in their late twenties and older, and adopted a tone suited to that audience.
Many of the characters in the film are in their late teens or early twenties, while in the source novel they are much older.
Most full-time Mormon missionaries constitute single young men in their late teens and early twenties, young women in their early twenties, and older couples no longer with children in the home.
Both have strawberry-blonde hair, are currently in their twenties and are close to each other in age, but are significantly older than Betty ( Polly still affectionately calls her " baby sister " on occasion ).

twenties and radio
All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).
In his twenties, Sammon began on one of Yorkshire's first pirates radio stations, the Bradford based station Paradise City Radio, and worked at several others, including Dream 107. 6 FM.

twenties and began
The powerful imagery of horror films began in German expressionist cinema after the first world war and then passed onto the Universal Studios films of the twenties and thirties, and then to the horror films of the English Hammer Studio.
In his early twenties, Wedgwood began working with the most renowned English pottery-maker of his day, Thomas Whieldon, who eventually became his business partner in 1754.
Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni.
However, by the time he was in his late twenties, Robinson began using marijuana.
Gere was raised by Methodist parents ; his interest in Buddhism began when in his twenties.
He began playing serious chess in his twenties, after leaving Prague to study mathematics in Vienna, at the Vienna Polytecnic.
The act began in the twenties of the 20th century.
He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B. A.
In his twenties, he began a career as a drama actor.
In his twenties, Foxx began performing stand-up at comedy clubs and eventually joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991 ; this exposure helped him land film roles and star in his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show.
The eldest son of eight children, Charles Remond began his activism in opposition to slavery while in his twenties as an orator speaking at public gatherings and conferences in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Pennsylvania.
He began collecting books from at least his early twenties, and by his death had amassed 20, 240 volumes containing 16, 000 titles.
Van Scorel began traveling through Europe in his early twenties after visiting Utrecht.
He began to publish poetry in the 1890s, while in his twenties.
He began studying drawing at the age of thirteen, and he exhibited regularly in Lisbon, Bilbao, Barcelona, and Madrid in his twenties and thirties, winning many prizes, including the Gold Medal painting prize in Barcelona's La Punyalada competition in 1965 .< ref name =" PitxotFigueres ">
In the early twenties, Roughead began a correspondence with American crime writer, Edmund Pearson, and a professional exchange of letters blossomed into a warm friendship for the next fifteen years.
Prats began working in his early twenties with the Government of Puerto Rico.
There, she began acting in her twenties, and also appeared in productions of the comedy troupe Cambridge Footlights.
Benöhr began to run in her twenties, to aid her efforts to stop smoking.
In his late teens and twenties, he began taking a series of environmental portraits with an Icoflex Zeiss camera, and had the opportunity to photograph many famous Swedes.
He began his journey of faith in 1977, when he was in his early twenties.
As a young woman she worked as a nursery teacher and took other part-time jobs ; but began writing in her twenties and had several stories published in magazines, such as Woman's Own and Jackie.
Influenced by the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, Jules Goux began racing cars in his early twenties.
These series are often compared to Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210, the latter of which began airing in the United States at the same time, except 90210 used actors who were in their twenties to play teenagers, whereas Degrassi used people who were the same age they were playing.

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