Sentence examples for mid from inspiring English sources

The word "mid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is in the middle, or halfway, between two points (such as times, dates, etc). For example, "I plan to start the project in mid-August."

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I began reading the Guardian in the mid 60's at university in Leeds and even at great distance and at times great inconvenience I continued to read the Guardian to this day.

In Budapest, Madi, then in her mid 40s, watched in dismay as Jews were humiliated, harassed and rounded up to be sent to labour or concentration camps.

Their son, Max, was just embarking on his GCSEs, and Simon, Sian's son and Peston's stepson, was in his mid 20s.

One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.

Mr Adams will sweep home in West Belfast, while Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's education minister, will have little difficulty in Mid Ulster.

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She remembered "skiving off" with Kennedy during a trip to Australia in the mid-90s to watch the film Trainspotting.

A November report by a British thinktank noted a rise in close military encounters between Russia and the west this year, including "violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, simulated attack runs and other dangerous actions happening on a regular basis over a very wide geographical area".

By my mid-twenties my career was on a distinct and structured path.

Or, putting the geography to one side, to mid-table in the most watched league in world football via one relegation, a painful administration and 11 different managers – permanent, interim or caretaker – at Palace alone.

Fiddling around with the 16 mid-sized laggards who failed, or marginally passed, the summer stress tests is not enough.

She said the industry was waiting on the release of a review into research infrastructure funding being carried out by businessman Philip Clark and the chief scientist, Ian Chubb, which was due mid-year.

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