expectation of life
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Those inaugurated between 1850 and 1900 failed to reach their expectation of life by 2.9 years, on the average.
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At the century's turn the expectation of life at birth was less than 50 years.
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He speaks of the source of his earlier despair as a prolonged adolescent expectation of life.
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Every year their expectation of life at any given age is increasing.
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Comparing the English statements of the mortality in the army with the calculations of the expectation of life in the general community, the difference is at once manifest.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
