And only about 1 in 100 Pennsylvania bucks reaches the prime breeding age of 4.
Some of the sales staff had 15 to 20 years of service and were no longer in the prime hiring age.
Among the displaced homemakers 35 to 64 years old, considered the prime working age, 43 percent were widowed.
"And we have a relatively small pool of people in the prime ready-to-get-married age now," he added.
The prime age for touch and feel books is from toddler-preschool.
"You are of a prime age,*' Ruell went on in the same tone, "strong, well set up and not bad looking.
He was twelve in 1962, a prime age for a boy, but you wouldn't know it lookin at him.
The nation's crime rate has dropped since the 1970's, primarily because there are fewer youths in the prime criminal ages.
The prime ages for an entrepreneur are the 30's and 40's.
And they are reaching their teen-age years, the prime moviegoing age.