If you have a compound number like 47 (as opposed to 40), you should always place a hyphen between the two parts of the word when writing it out.
Then, in an extended act of figuration worthy of John Donne, Amichai reflects that the pressure of his life has brought his date of birth closer to the date of his death, "as in history books / where the pressure of history has brought / those two numbers together next to the name of a dead king / with only a hyphen between them".
Why bother sticking a hyphen between "year" and "old" when you've already dropped the essential hyphen after "40"?
Understand when to use hyphens: In certain circumstances, you will need to put a hyphen between the prefix and the base word.
Personally, I don't recommend living life as a hyphen.
Result: Perfect, even going as far as throwing a hyphen into "low-level" for me.
Today I see my concerts as a kind of hyphen between Africa and the west, whose consciousness I want to raise about the resources and the vitality of our continent – just as I do, at another level, in my meetings with heads of state".
I know that the room where they smoked was the Smoke-Room, with a capital 'S' and a capital 'R' and a hyphen in between, and not the fumoir, as it was later called").
("I have a floor plan of that ship," Sontag says. "I know everything about it. I know that the room where they smoked was the Smoke-Room, with a capital 'S' and a capital 'R' and a hyphen in between, and not the fumoir, as it was later called").
This comma seems to be trying to repel a hyphen hovering between "black" and "stained".
