Usage examples of "avoir cinquante ans bien sonnés" in French with translation to English

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Bientôt, ce ne sera plus inédit de vivre jusqu'à cent cinquante ans. Soon, it won't be unheard of to live to 150.
Notre école a cinquante ans. Our school is fifty years old.
Les villes et les provinces le long du fleuve Yangtsé, au centre de la Chine, sont aux prises avec la pire sécheresse que le pays ait connu depuis plus de cinquante ans. Cities and provinces along the Yangtze River in central China are grappling with the country's worst drought in more than 50 years.
À l'âge de cinquante ans, elle entama une nouvelle carrière. At the age of fifty she embarked on a new career.
L'homme contrôla le pays pendant cinquante ans. The man controlled the country for fifty years.
Les Russes copient les mœurs françaises, mais toujours à cinquante ans de distance. The Russians copy the French ways, but always fifty years later.
Mon père a cinquante ans. My father is fifty years old.
C'est l'été le plus chaud que nous ayons eu en cinquante ans. This is the hottest summer we have had in fifty years.
Ce n'est pas si facile d'apprendre une nouvelle langue après cinquante ans. It's not that easy to learn a new language after fifty.
Il frôle les cinquante ans. He's pushing fifty.
Il est dans le service depuis cinquante ans. He's been in the service for 50 years.
Il doit avoir passé les cinquante ans. He must be over fifty.
Des chercheurs de l'université de Paderborn ont établi qu'il fallait 2000 heures d'apprentissage de l'anglais à un francophone pour parler correctement. Sachant qu'il y a 32 semaines de cours par an et à 3h de cours par semaine, il faut donc 20,83 ans d'études à un Français pour bien parler anglais. Researchers at the university of Paderborn have established that it took up to 2000 hours of English learning for a French speaker to speak English correctly. Given that there are 32 weeks of classes in a year and with 3 hours of lessons every week, 20.83 years of study are thus necessary for a French person to speak good English.
Mon père va bientôt avoir 40 ans. My father will soon be forty years old.
Je vais avoir quatorze ans. I am going to be fourteen.
Il doit avoir environ 40 ans. He must be about forty.
Elle ne peut avoir plus de 30 ans. She cannot be over thirty.
Elle doit avoir plus de 80 ans. She must be over eighty.
Il doit avoir plus de 60 ans. He must be over sixty.
Il semble avoir une bourse bien garnie. He seems to have a fat purse.
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