1 They were quite common in the fifties.
2 Beyond the late fifties everything faded.
3 When he had gone fifty metres he looked back.
4 As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago.
5 He was older than Winston had thought him; he was perhaps forty-eight or fifty.
6 When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least.
7 And that was--well, I couldn't give you the date, but it must'a been fifty years ago.
8 It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by impalement, or fifty other deaths.
9 The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties.
10 She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties.
11 He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.
12 After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low.
13 And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department.
14 The older generation had mostly been wiped out in the great purges of the fifties and sixties, and the few who survived had long ago been terrified into complete intellectual surrender.
15 It had never before occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work till it was coarse in the grain like an over-ripe turnip, could be beautiful.
16 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
17 And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process--by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute--the machine did raise the living standards of the average human being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
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