1. Mid-fifties, short black hair, grey moustache, distinctive Russian accent. Need I go on?

2. She was a large, sturdy woman in her mid-fifties.

3. The barriers were solid, but only until the mid-fifties.

4. He was in his mid-fifties with a gaunt face and thinning wavy red hair.

5. Her attacker is described as white, in his mid-fifties and with medium-length dark hair.

6. With the exception of three years in the mid-Fifties, Rowicki continued as its artistic director and principal conductor until 1977.

7. He was in his mid-fifties, at the height of his skills and powers, and he went back to the plant.

8. By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism.

9. In his mid-fifties without any professional skills, he works for 50 yuan a day.

10. After mid-fifties the Eisenhower Administration publicly hatched "two-China" scheme, which has become American long-term objective in its China-Taiwan strategy.

11. Having borne ten chil-dren, the two youngest of whom probably still lived at home, she was then in her mid-fifties.

12. There was virtually no change in the profit share between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties.

13. Today is a rare warm day in winter, in the mid-fifties.

14. The way people in their forties and those in their twenties used the Web did not differ much, Scheer said, but the difference to someone in their mid-fifties was significant.

15. Nuclear Energy has been used to power warships since the mid-fifties.

16. The way people in their 40s and those in their 20s used the Web did not differ much, Scheer said, but the difference to someone in their mid-fifties was significant.

17. He had worked for the Bendix Corporation in the mid-fifties, and had some experience with electronic control systems, which were then used only in high technology, like computers.