Definition of "mid-forties" [mid-forties]

• The time of life between 40 and 50. (noun)

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• "There to greet them stands a perky volunteer, a white woman in her mid-forties who dutifully shakes the hand of every person."
• "Dr. Fox is in her mid-forties, pretty, slim (her English pub nickname was “stick”)."
• "I don't know much about the history of the place, but it has the look of a better church of the mid-forties or early fifties, with light-ish brick, limestone trim, and several rather charming bits of architectural sculpture here and there."