Sullivan writes like a twelve-year old on Twitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

'That's a twelve-year relationship we're talkin' about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

Over a twelve-year span he completed a good many courses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

But what about that twelve-year old boy in South Carolina?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Hoenig: A Tough Job] Reference

Let me give you a twelve-year old's recollection of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Greenspan: Recapturing the Spirit of the 1960 Convention] Reference

Nor is it what we would necessarily wish for a twelve-year old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Hyphenization of phrases such as “a twelve-year old” is consistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

He had just been released from a twelve-year sentence on Robben Island in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks made by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the renaming of the Ukhahlamba Region to the Joe Nzingo Gqabi Region] Reference

And that was saying something for a twelve-year veteran of the Houston PD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Girl Found]

Agreed, a sexually active twelve-year old has no idea of what she is in for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Wives of Henry VIII] Reference

The marriage of twelve-year - olds was common, as were thirteen-year-old mothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Veiled Journey]

"This twelve-year old has nothing to do with you," said Judge Judy to the stepmother.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2009] Reference

I married again after the death of my first wife and I now have a twelve-year old son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse]

A bright and lovely and self-aware twelve-year old who makes no apologies for her Bratz Doll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-06] Reference

They've lived apart for most of their twelve-year relationship and have a seven-year old daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don't have a gun and I don't have you] Reference

Chen Meng, thirty-seven, is serving a twelve-year prison sentence in Dongguan, Guangdong Province.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Appeal to the 'Fortune' Conference in Shanghai] Reference

My niece, it should be said, is a bright and lovely twelve-year old with a very keen sense of self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-06] Reference

Ill Parthica and XXVI Ulpia had come in in tandem after a twelve-year campaign beyond the Mauvain Rim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Never Sleeps]

I was arguing with my twelve-year old about something, and I asked him why he was being so oppositional.    From Wordnik.com.  [ccfinlay: 1400 words again. Most of it is pretty g] Reference

The next morning the child was the size of a twelve-year old; and after seven weeks he was a full-grown man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

According to today's article, it seems as though this twelve-year old has been a handful for quite some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Hoenig: A Tough Job] Reference

He began his career over thirty years ago with a twelve-year stint in the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why they Fear Eric Holder (and President Obama)] Reference

I do not wish to contribute to tokenism, or stereotyping, or kicking sand in the eyes of that twelve-year old kid.    From Wordnik.com.  [i should have read your letters] Reference

It was late, the streets were cold and quiet, and the reality of my twelve-year journey was hitting me in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [EARL -The Autobiography of DMX]

Manslaughter convictions do not, as a rule, attract twelve-year sentences, as defence lawyers in the case point out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

That election gave Democrats a larger majority in the House than Republicans ever achieved in their twelve-year reign.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fateful Election] Reference

It was the picture of a twelve-year old Pakistani boy trained to be a jihadist slaughtering and beheading some poor soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

During a twelve-year span, she served as a role model and inspiration to several generations of students at Stern College.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Museums in the United States.] Reference

It is possible that a twelve-year limit in office could offer an alternative to unrestrained power and permanent incumbency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Milazzo: Term Limits for Congress: Let's Restart the Discussion] Reference

There's a man over there on the Wenatchee who is going to make a thousand dollar profit on each acre of his twelve-year orchard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

And today it was reported that a mother in South Carolina had her twelve-year old son arrested for opening a Christmas present early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Hoenig: A Tough Job] Reference

Forty-four years ago the Twelve Colonies and their rebellious creations, the Cylons ended a twelve-year war with an armistice agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far] Reference

One Cuban official was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, eight were given twelve-year sentences, and twenty-six others received two-to-ten-year sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

Although the report maintained that these events occurred throughout the twelve-year period, it is likely that many were concentrated during the Starving Time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

RAoSV is a near future coming of age story of a twelve-year old girl in Manhattan, whose family falls on hard times and she takes up with people her parents wouldn't approve of.    From Wordnik.com.  [sleepdep, Womack's descent, crash, club] Reference