How To Use Fifty-six In A Sentence
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He also wrote Golasara which is written in fifty-six Sanskrit verses and shows how mathematical computations are used to calculate astronomical data.
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Before this royal residence was demolished, however, its fifty-six bas-reliefs were cut out of the walls and stored throughout the palace.
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Admiral Carden was given the new superdreadnought Queen Elizabeth with eight 15-inch guns, the battle cruiser Inflexible with eight 12-inch guns, and twelve British and four French predreadnought battleships carrying a total of fifty-six 12-inch and eight 10-inch guns.
Castles of Steel
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Angelo, on the other hand, has fifty-six lines before he meets with Isabella which contain few rhetorical devices, in keeping with forensic speech.
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The popular pair made a Broadway debut in 1927 in Lady Do, in which they tangoed, waltzed, and foxtrotted through fifty-six performances at the Liberty Theatre.
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Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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When it was daylight a racing droshky was brought up to the front door and the old man got jauntily on to it, pulling his big cap down to his ears; and, looking at him, no one would have said he was fifty-six.
The Witch, and other stories
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She was only fifty-six and was stuck-up, snobby and prissy and disliked most everyone in the group.
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now he has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Complete
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Fifty-six matches are on display and feature a variety of mechanical beasties built expressly to beat the Valvoline out of other mechanical beasties.
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Their risk of death from breast cancer was fifty-six percent lower, says Doctor Susan Domchek.
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now be has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Volume 2.
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Fire broke out in an old, litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished.
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Forty-fifth to Fifty-sixth Streets, formerly dead ends at railway yards, became thoroughfares.
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The selectmen shall thereupon direct the town clerk to cause the said question to be printed on the official ballot to be used at the next annual election in the following form: — "Shall the acceptance by the town of Andover of an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled 'An act establishing a select - men-town manager plan for the town of Andover* be re - voked?
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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swags" at Mac Mac the day we started, Maclean's and mine tipped the scale at fifty-six pounds each.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
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Inside the bank was a circle of fifty-six holes (the Aubrey Holes - so-called after the antiquary who discovered them), which probably held upright posts (some marked by concrete discs).
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This was street code for an illegal transaction: fifty-six units of 50 mg tablets of Elavil, twenty-eight units of 200 mg tablets of Tuinol, and fifty-six units of 10 mg tablets of Valium.
Dancing with the Devil
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Lord Valleys grimaced beneath his crisp moustache -- the word grandpapa always fell queerly on the ears of one who was but fifty-six, and by no means felt it -- and jerking his gloved hand towards Ann, he said:
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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I spoke to the steward, an old Chinese, smooth-faced and brisk of movement, whose name I never learned, but whose age on the articles was fifty-six.
CHAPTER III
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Six-hundred-and-fifty-six people staring him—or the image of them staring at him—made him want to flee.
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This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant, and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the awful deeds of that _awful creed_.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
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They were certainly needed, for by then the attendance had leapt to fifty-six.
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`So what I want to know is what is the fifty-six percents impure you puts in?
SORT OF RICH
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Any vaginal bleeding before the fifty-sixth day after birth is almost always anovulatory meaning that no egg has been released and can be ignored.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
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Fifty-six minutes of heat and stress and airlessness.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel
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When frosted, they are liable to produce hoven, unless kept in a warm shed to thaw before being used; fifty-six pounds given, at two meals, are as much as a large cow should have in a day.
Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
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In "A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation," a study that has now achieved almost as much renown as LeVay's, the Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and Boston University's Richard Pillard compared fifty-six "monozygotic" twins (identical twins, from the same zygote, or fertilized egg), fifty-four "dizygotic" (fraternal) twins, and fifty-seven genetically unrelated adopted brothers.
Homosexuality and Biology
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You are progressive, sir," he went on; "you write in iron-nutgall ink, just made, commercially, in this year of fifty-six by Mr. Stephens.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
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At the time, the nearest known relative of the plains viscacha rat was another viscacha rat, Octomys mimax, with fifty-six chromosomes.
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Why did you, a fifty-six-year-old professor, seduce a student barely past the age of consent?
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`So what I want to know is what is the fifty-six percents impure you puts in?
SORT OF RICH
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This week on our series, we continue the story of the presidency of Franklin Pierce. And they talk about the presidential election of eighteen fifty-six.
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Taking the average of values, which varied considerably in different years of Ferdinand and Isabella, it appears that the ducat, reduced to our own currency, will be equal to about eight dollars and seventy-seven cents, and the dobla to eight dollars and fifty-six cents.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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He was given a ‘grand’ funeral that included a cortège of fifty-six newsboys, six of whom carried his body from the home on Pear Street to St. Joseph's Church.
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She saw no more of him till the carrier brought home to her, on the Sunday morning, a starved and pallid object -- 'gone clean silly, an hutched thegither like an owd man o' seventy -- he bein fifty-six by his reet years. '
The History of David Grieve