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• Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.
• My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.
• Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.
• You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.
• He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.