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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
THIRTY occurs
11 times
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1.
... thirty.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
But here is a
man who at
fifty-
five years found he was just where
he had
left off at
thirty.
2.
... thirty and
under.
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism (Note)
But a
2001 U.S./Canada membership survey showed about one-
tenth of
A.A.'s were
thirty and under.
3.
... thirty completely
new stories were added; and ...
BB xi,
Preface
"
Bill's
Story," "
Doctor Bob's
Nightmare," and one other
personal history from the
first edition were
retained intact;
three were
edited and one of
these was
retitled; new
versions of
two stories were
written, with
new
titles;
thirty completely new
stories
were
added; and the
story section was
divided into
three parts, under the same
headings that are used now.
4.
... thirty dollars
a week at the time, ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
As my
total income was
thirty dollars a
week at the
time, this was a
fairly large donation.
5.
... thirty-five.
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
He did no
drinking until he was
thirty-
five.
6.
... thirty miles
away has fifteen fellows of ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
7.
... thirty or
less, had been drinking only ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a few
years,
but they
found themselves as
helpless as those who had been
drinking twenty years.
8.
... thirty stories
or case histories in which ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
9.
... thirty was
doing a great deal of ...
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
A
man of
thirty was doing a
great deal of
spree drinking.
10.
... thirty years
later the conquest of the ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
Only
thirty years later the
conquest of the
air was almost an
old story and
airplane travel was in
full swing.
11.
... thirty years
of hard drinking have been ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
As we shall see, he now
means a
great deal to his
community, and the
major liabilities of
thirty years of
hard drinking have been
repaired in
four.
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