1 He thought it must have been at some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to be certain.
2 At a guess he would have said that it was the body of a man of sixty, suffering from some malignant disease.
3 She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties.
4 He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles.
5 After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low.
6 She had had her first love-affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest.
7 Winston's working week was sixty hours, Julia's was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide.
8 The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all.
9 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.
10 She had no memories of anything before the early sixties and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight.
11 An enormous wreck of a woman, aged about sixty, with great tumbling breasts and thick coils of white hair which had come down in her struggles, was carried in, kicking and shouting, by four guards, who had hold of her one at each corner.
12 They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.