expectation of life
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"I wonder what the expectation of life of, say, an advertising agent of thirty really is�at this moment of time, I mean."
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At the century's turn the expectation of life at birth was less than 50 years.
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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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He speaks of the source of his earlier despair as a prolonged adolescent expectation of life.
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But Sheridan was only six months older than I, and his "expectation of life" was far beyond the time when I should become sixty-four years old.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by Schofield, John M.
