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Discover LudwigThe phrase "age stood" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a specific moment in time related to age, but without additional context, it is unclear how to use it appropriately.
Example: "At that moment, the age stood as a reminder of the years gone by."
Alternatives: "time stood still" or "the years stood frozen".
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And all the conflicting forces of Europe's golden age stood behind one or the other.
Three very young girls, not much over Ms. Dolores Haze's age, stood at the entrance, sadly clutching their tickets; a gruff guard wouldn't let them in.
An expressive guitarist (Dean Fertita, better known with Queens of the Stone Age) stood on the left, a no-nonsense bassist (Jack Lawrence, better known with the Raconteurs) on the right.
It has the mmnemonic tenacity, if not the wholesomeness, of a nursery rhyme, and to read it once is to get large shards of it permanently lodged in the brain: "Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still,/And she danced twice a day in vaudeville".
Danny Almonte, the left-handed pitcher who threw a perfect game in the World Series and who has been the center of a controversy over his age, stood by Yankees starting pitcher Sterling Hitchcock and pretended to throw a pitch home.
Sunilda, a Paraguayan woman my age, stood in front of me explaining why she'd stopped coming to my weekly Peace Corps computer class.
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A five-foot-tall canvas of a half-nude nymph, the oil paint cracked with age, stands on the floor.
As stand age increases, mature lodgepole pine cover types may experience relatively higher autotrophic respiration rates during the growing season, compared to younger age stands characterized by smaller bole diameters and lower metabolic baselines [50].
However, while in the Karelian Isthmus this age group is vastly prevailing, Karelian middle taiga features more heterogeneous age distribution mainly represented by middle age stands (40 80 years) with occasional more mature stands (120 160 years).
The influence of tree and stand characteristics, e.g. rotation age, stand density, species composition and stand distribution in the landscape, are discussed in order to analyze the ecological and environmental consequences of current and future management alternatives.
Stunting (height for age) stands at 9.0% and wasting (weight for height) at 2.5%.
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