How To Use Fifty In A Sentence
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A couple of the multicellular test subjects died and the invertebrates had a fifty-fifty survival rate.
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths.
Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
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Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
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Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy.
The Titan
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Fr. Stephen celebrated fifty years as a priest recently and the occasion was marked by the concelebration of Mass in St. Patricks Church, Clonbur on last Friday evening.
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Could you just sing the tune of the hymn rather than the hundred and fifty-seven little twiddly bits?
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Fifty per cent of road accidents result in head injuries.
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The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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Fifty consecutive, nonobese, habitually snoring, otherwise-healthy children (age range: 6-9 years) and 50 age -, gender -, and ethnicity-matched obese children (BMI z score: 1.67) underwent an overnight polysomnographic evaluation, followed by a multiple sleep latency test the following day.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Sleep Apnea a Significant Problem in Sleepy Kids?
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A more specific look is then taken at the Ottoman 'sanjaks' or district provinces, with the Jerusalem sanjak "as a separate entity from the other regions of Syria [being] of tremendous importance for the emergence of Palestine about fifty years later.
The Israel/Palestine Question - Book Reveviw
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At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The guard ushered me into the office of a burly fiftysomething man in a police uniform.
Times, Sunday Times
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The complexity and number of processes for treating silk goods may be realized when we know that a piece-dyed or printed fabric is handled its entire length between fifty and one hundred times after it comes from the loom, sometimes even more.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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The maturity of the voices among the principals was amazing for performers all under 18, over fifty in number.
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On June twenty-fifth, nineteen-fifty, North Korean soldiers crossed the thirty-eighth parallel.
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He signed a five-year contract with an English company indenturing himself for labor in the South Seas at fifty cents a day.
“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
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On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet.
The U-boat hunters
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During his career, he wrote more than fifty plays.
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February 25, 1862 and later, Congress had provided for the issue of four hundred and fifty million dollars of United States paper notes, which were commonly known as greenbacks or legal-tenders.
The United States Since the Civil War
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Fifty researchers telephoned for a loan or credit card with each of these four lenders, making a total of 200 calls.
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She was about fifty years old, with a moon face and pixie hairdo, wearing a light cotton kimono.
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The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top.
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Between 1933 and 1939, he produced fifty-four short stories and twenty novels / novellas in serialized form under such pen names as Samuel I.
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Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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He called himself old at fifty.
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It was untitled apart from saying that the person photographed was now fifty years of age.
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In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle.
Backfire
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He told the same style old jokes I've heard fifty times before.
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As its top cooled and contracted, it developed narrow crevices more than fifty feet deep.
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The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist monolith for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
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As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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The jury is still out; I mean, it's so fifty-fifty.
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The Curé would follow the Queen as she collected this small tax for her poor people, a levy which often totaled as much as much as one hundred 'louis' and never less than fifty.
Almsgiving of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
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Fifty-One Julie Craig heard the car pull up in the driveway and hurried across to the landing window-to look out.
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She has the names of the fifty states down pat
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It was high, fifty thousand, but his lawyer's either got deep pockets or a running tab with a bail bondsman.
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In nature, jawfish live in colonies of from fifty to several hundred extremely territorial individuals.
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It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle.
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The ceremony was transmitted live by satellite to over fifty countries.
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Fifty years after the Brown decision, blacks remain unassimilated.
Think Progress » Ann Coulter to MoveOn: “How About Helping Out?”
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PRIESSNITZ, the celebrated founder of hydropathy, died at Graefenberg on the 26th of November, at the age of fifty-two.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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Society has changed so profoundly over the last fifty years.
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Californium - 249 has a half-life of 350 years; mendelevium - 258, fifty-one days; seaborgium - 266 twenty-one seconds.
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In 1803 Napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from Paris.
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I have to rewash about fifty percent of the dishes, and the ones I kept are not good and clean either.
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Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent.
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They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
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The corniferous limestone is never more than fifty or sixty feet thick, and does not contain even one per cent. of hydrocarbons; and in southern
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
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They have been recorded up to forty and even fifty miles in length, and they have been called floe bergs, because it was supposed that they froze first as ordinary sea-ice and increased by subsequent additions from below.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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The big milling machine was working on the final large beryllium component, a large metallic hyperboloid about fifty centimeters in length, with a maximum width of twenty.
The Sum of all Fears
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Less desirable boats were offering passage for as little as fifty cents.
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The councilor was a well-preserved man of about fifty, of good height, dressed in a well-made gray traveling suit, with a light gray silk tie adorned with a pin of black pearl.
The Malady of the Century
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fifty dollars or under
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Randall's first publications in 1965 were literally broadsides - single poems printed on large sheets of paper that sold for fifty cents.
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Fifty pence from each bottle bought will go to the trust's ancient tree hunt, a project to save rare, ancient trees in the UK.
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Our giggling stopped with a burst followed by an answering burst of machine-gun fire coming from the river about fifty yards away.
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We have lived in the same house for fifty years.
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In 1944, as a civilian, he flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific theater and shot down one Japanese fighter.
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There was only a fifty percent chance that they'd actually get quizzed on the material tomorrow, but she couldn't chance it.
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Yet with the characteristic caution and modesty of true genius, he continued for nine years longer to reason and experimentalize upon what is now considered one of the simplest, as it is undoubtedly the most important known law of animal nature; and it was not till the year 1628, the fifty-first of his life, that he consented to publish his discovery to the world.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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They wad hae seen my father's roof-tree fa 'down and smoor me before they wad hae gien a boddle a-piece to have propped it up -- but they could a' link out their fifty pounds ower head to bigg a hottle at the Well yonder.
St. Ronan's Well
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There was a sheer drop of fifty metres to the rocks below.
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Anonymous said ... mungo is fifty?!?! will the test be worse than knowing that the prez of the united states is younger than you, and will be taking a lot of your money?
Celebrating Inauguration Day in Style
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Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
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A fifty-pound chunk of steel was missing from the reactor, and the only thing holding the coolant in was the stainless cladding, which is paperthin, and which bulged out the hole like bubblegum.
Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’
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The treatment groups were compared at baseline with respect to more than fifty characteristics.
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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C.S. Lewis
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A concurrent trade fair will comprise stands of about fifty museums, exhibition specialists and suppliers.
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The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures.
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In the figure we call synecdoche, a part of the whole becomes a name for the whole, or vice versa as in "sixty head of cattle" or "fifty sails.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
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Fifty species of bonsai, comprising trees and shrubs, are on display.
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While investigating the dyeing properties of the lichens, I made experiments, with a view to test their colorific power, on as many species as I could obtain in sufficient quantity, to render it at all useful to operate on -- that number, however, being very limited (between forty and fifty).
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Society member Thomas Snowden held "Fifty shares of the stock of the New Jersey Morris Canal and Banking Company" when he died and when creditors forced Theophilus Eaton to file as an insolvent debtor, he possessed a note from William Garratt promising the delivery of
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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It cost me fifty quid, or about seventy-five US dollars and I was happy to pay it.
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About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
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One morning in June, 1589, the space within the main gate of the Juraku palace was seen to be occupied throughout a length of nearly three hundred yards with gold and silver coins heaped up on trays each containing one hundred and fifty pieces.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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Two hundred and fifty years ago it was numbered tickets to Westminster Hall that were in demand: two Jacobite earls and a lord were on trial there.
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Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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At fifty-nine, he was mostly bald, though a few white tufts of hair grew right behind his ears.
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Without this help cancer research would dry up and the same statistics would be facing us fifty years from now.
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They have been known for about fifty years and look quite different from any other pollen, fossil or modern.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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I've sat in countless staff meetings where doctors who see fifty patients a day are held up as examples to the rest of us sluggards who see twenty-five to thirty.
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Fifty years in, the series has achieved a sort of mainstream cultishness, like an exclusive club open to all.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was an uncanny lack of sound for an attack until about fifty yards in front of the gate when the warriors took up a battle cry that sounded like a dull roar.
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I am optimistic - I think we have a fifty-fifty chance to be here, to survive.
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Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.
THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
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Fifty-eight per cent of homes have electricity and water supply and are linked to the sewerage system.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings
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Tie an oversize scarf (about forty-five inches wide by fifty or sixty inches long) or pareo around your lower waist (just below your natural waistline) and do a loop square knot tie above the center of one leg. Push the knot lower on your body, forming a subtle angle.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
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Once the water reaches fifty degrees and above, and the sun starts to stay out longer and longer, these large females will begin roaming the shallows and looking for food that will build weight and is easy to catch without expending a lot of energy.
Is This The New World-Record Largemouth?
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Fifty-one years ago, my father decided to leave his country of birth, to seek a life free from socio-political oppression.
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We were in the middle of a broad and now sluggish river the banks of which were lined by giant, arboraceous ferns, raising their mighty fronds fifty, one hundred, two hundred feet into the quiet air.
The Land That Time Forgot
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Our aim is fifty-fifty representation - total gender balance in the system.
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They walked at least fifty yards, until they were directly above the transept of the cathedral.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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The minute I turned fifty, doctors started hawking the premenopausal hormones right away.
Roseanne Archy
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The company, which finds more customers among retired military than it does among granola crunching "greens," is growing like topsy and each system installed reduces a household's carbon emissions by fifty percent.
John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio: Nothing and Everything -- What Consumers Expect from the New Normal
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Besides, we'll be splitting the cost of the paintings fifty-fifty.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Fifty workers using five crawler cranes will be at the site six days a week.
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While you say we can't afford to reform health insurance, more than fifty million Americans (at the latest count) live without it, go hungry or heatless or bankrupt without it, and in thousands of cases literally die without it.
James Heffernan: Roadblocking the Ambulance of Health Care Reform
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Fifty soldiers were taking an early morning bathe in a nearby lake.
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The court clerk, a slight woman of about fifty, her expression emotionless and professional, rotated the box and, when it had stopped, opened the top, looked away so that the jurors could be assured this was random, and took out the first card.
Just Take My Heart
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Do not await a charge to-day," ordered San Martin; "_but charge_ always within fifty paces!
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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There look to be about fifty people present - I haven't counted heads yet.
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Presently it opened and disclosed fifty horsemen, gathered together to waylay merchants on the highway, and their captain, by name Kahrdash, was a lion in daring and dash; a furious lion who layeth knights flat as carpets in battle-crash. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The archipelago is a scattering of about fifty islands.
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But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon.
The Brush Off
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Don't expect to get hot water here; the plumbing is about fifty years out of date.
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The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.
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He treats us to a long discourse on "banded mail", the full-faced bucket helms are probably fifty years too hi-tech, the use of a barrier in tournament is a tad precocious.
Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"
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More than fifty people responded to the advertisement.
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I do not know how to reconcile Caissene's insistence that "one hoe was for one woman" with Harries's meticulously documented report that chiefs had "inflated" bridewealth "from five hoes in the late 1860s to over fifty a decade later" except that perhaps the declining trade in hand-forged hoes made them that much more valuable and coveted in relation to mass-produced European imitations.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In three hundred large-format pages, 60 million Frenchmen merit a single paragraph, while the fifty thousand Vlachs of the Balkans and the fifty thousand Faroe Islanders of Denmark receive careful dissection over many pages.4 And why not?
Bloodlust
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Sherlock Holmes is often thought of as ‘immortal’, and James Bond is still going strong at about fifty years of age.
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In the planked room, or magazine, were placed one hundred barrels of gunpowder in bulk; and on the deck, immediately above the powder, were laid fifty thirteen-and-a-half-inch shells, and one hundred nine-inch shells, with a large quantity of shot, pieces of kentledge, and fragments of iron of different sorts.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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Nearly fifty years ago I sat cross-legged on the floor of what we called the turret room at the end of the long corridor above McDonald Road, and read about Everest in ‘The National Geographic’, and wanted to be a mountaineer.
Jacob's Ladder
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A flying mountain, roughly the shape - and size - of the island of Manhattan was turning on a cosmic spit every fifty-three hours; as the heat of the Sun seeped through the insulating crust, the vaporizing gases were making Halley's Comet behave like a leaking steam-boiler.
2061 Odyssey Three
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The central dome is some fifty feet in height, and passing to the right the guide seats the party in such a position that the frost work on the wall can be seen to advantage.
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How many children have failed Grade 10 during the last five years - forty, fifty, sixty, seventy thousand?
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The doctor told my wife I had a fifty - fifty chance of survival.
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Fifty-five percent knew that Lothian Regional Council provided local services in their local area.
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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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The bookcase contains fifty volumes but holds a hundred.
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He has spent over fifty years at the top in a very demanding profession and deserves to be congratulated for it.
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Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Ulysses
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If he wins—and it's a big if—he'll be the first Chinese to win for fifty years.
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One hundred and fifty native trees and shrubs were planted on Lackham Estate in Ashlea field.
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Fifty Spetsnaz men, dressed as Afghans, appeared and fired fusillades into the crowd.
KARA KUSH
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He was prepared to stand watch and steer the ship for forty or fifty days or however long was necessary.
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It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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Tim and I were discussing the ending and the fifty million various ways in which it could go.
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Also in the same third year of Ten-in, a great tree-trunk, one hundred and fifty feet long, was stranded on the seashore near a shrine called Ube-no-yashiro, at Miyanoshita-mura, which is in Inaba.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
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Derek Jefferson held the pin for Harley's approach putt of about fifty feet.
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'He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey.
Edison, His Life and Inventions
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Her dark curls were disheveled, her expression grim and making her look every one of her fifty-plus years.
Etched in Bone
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1895 OW 1886 OW Fully fifty-four of my discoveries have to do with land animals: alcine elk, moose W dasyurine dasyure antelopine antelope W (1839-47) OW aspine asp 1644 O didelphine opossum bisontine bison 1885 - 1847 OW
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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He was seized in her presence, and dirked by fifty daggers outside of her room.
John Knox and the Reformation
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The plan was to caravan fifty boys and a truck filled with tents and equipment to a remote spot near Mount Palomar in Southern California.
Full Frontal Nudity
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In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation.
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
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The ascensional force of the new balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and putting aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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When I suggested that the sight of three women of our age -- we are all well on toward fifty; Aggie insists that she is younger than I am, but we were in the same infant class in Sunday-school -- three women of our age "potting" at fences was hardly dignified, Tish merely shrugged her shoulders.
More Tish
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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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A centime is the hundredth of a franc, and fifty centimes is ten cents.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
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Fifty-one cents," said the girl, through the inimitable laconism of gum chewing.
Star-Dust
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They shook hands on it, and the cartwright departed with his promised fifty pieces of silver.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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Next year they celebrate fifty years of marriage.
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This is more than two hundred times the average wage and some fifty times the salary of domestic airline pilots.
Politics, Planning and the State
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Jason surpassed the speed limit in the city by fifty miles with Steven in the back seat holding me.
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It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods.
The Yosemite
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At fifty meters and change, the submersible was a mid-sized Falnari vessel built for touring and very little else—certainly not for teetering on the edge of an abyss.
Distant Shores
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Conventional tribology has become well established in the past fifty years but the few handbooks that exist are dated.
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They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
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The "Big Lake" is so called in contra‑distinction to the Little Lake, which lies due East from it fifty miles, and which has been described in a former chapter.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
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His wealth is estimated at fifty million dollars.
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Fifty years ago, an epidemic swept across this nation affecting millions of people and lasting for many years.
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He was Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty.
The Mucker
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A shell scored a direct hit on a petrol tank, and he felt the wave of heat from fifty yards off.
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Fifty per cent of the world's buffaloes and 20 per cent of the cattle are found in India, most of which are milch cows and milch buffaloes.
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He was thirty, but looked fifty, with pale skin, hopeless eyes and an emaciated body, covered in sores.
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Paul and Bob both laughed, and harder yet as the bright little animal shot a paw into Paul's pocket and adroitly drew out a Brazilian gold coin called a milreis, worth about fifty-four cents in American money.
Around the World in Ten Days
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Fifty years ago it was, according to an irate letter writer in the Evening Press.
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Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago.
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She pressed a fifty pence piece into my hand and told me to go to the jukebox and put on song number 10 from cd number 3.
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The amendment also mandates that a one man, one woman marriage will be seen as valid in all fifty states, thereby precluding any state from disallowing or disfavoring traditional marriage.
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With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
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This type is not necessarily that of a woman whose daughter has married, but the type of a depressed woman of about fifty, aboulic, discontented with herself and others, domineering, and jealous, because she suffers from the mania of being loved though she is incapable of acquiring any one's affection.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
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He was fifty-one years of age and the sole support of his mother who has failing eyesight.
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Whereas on this continent the unskilled labourer is paid fifty to sixty percent of the wages of skilled labour, in South Africa his wages are less than twenty per cent of that of skilled labour.
A Canadian Looks at South Africa
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Afterward he was for some time at Eton, where he had the ill-luck to receive some fifty-four stripes for his shortcomings in Latin; thence he goes to Trinity
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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All in all we must have wasted about fifty gallons of water and never did succeed in getting the blasted thing to run.
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Fifty feet below the larva, an adult of the same species creeps across the rocky seafloor in search of a meal.
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The woman chosen to be bedmaker and attendant was to be fifty years of age, of good name and fame, and ready to help the poor men if they fell sick.
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Only fifty or so students ever bothered to graduate.
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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If there had been a century gap while the Anomine beavered away at construction, the Primes would have expanded out to every star within a fifty lightyear radius before the generators were finished.
The Dreaming Void
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And thus they went so long till that they came to the Siege Perilous, where they found letters newly written of gold which said: Four hundred winters and four and fifty accomplished after the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ought this siege to be fulfilled.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Close to fifty thousand pairs of hands punched the air in time with the 'hullo's, safisfied grins masking their relief at seeing a second goal go in before the interval.
Boiling a frog
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Military depots fifty years ago usually had a large network of railway tracks, as much of their traffic, human and otherwise, tended to arrive and depart by rail.
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For women old age was often thought to start earlier, in the late forties or around fifty, when the physical concomitants of menopause became visible; for men the defining characteristic was capacity for full-time work.
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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A typical heder enrolled forty to fifty boys, often in wretched physical quarters, after public school hours to learn mechanical reading of Hebrew, siddur, hummash, and Mishnah.
Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
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It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him.
Locked Rooms
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He who had once negotiated with the nawab of Bengal to build a trading station on the banks of the Hoogly and traded horses and sugar in Persia and on the Malay archipelago; he who lost cargoes and gambled on trades now was building fifty Anglican churches.
THE DIAMOND
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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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It was an unexpected bonus for a man of fifty-one.
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That will basically cover fifty...correction sixty percent of all charges.
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The police stated that some fifty rounds had been discharged.
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Voters will choose fifty of the seventy five deputies. The Emir will nominate the rest.
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Within ten to thirty days between twenty to fifty new plants begin to develop from the dormant buds on the rhizome.
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This is the sort of "prankishness" one imagines Kazin to have been complaining about and that no longer ” after fifty years of postmodern experimentation (and five Zuckerman books by Philip Roth) ” sticks in our craw.
Justice to J.D. Salinger
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Extreme surfers will ride waves that reach heights of more than fifty feet.
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He left me a lousy fifty cent tip.
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You can imagine my utter disbelief then, when the cab turned up and turned out to be driven by a grey haired, short man of about fifty years of age.
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He would reach the bottom of the manrope rigging about the time the creature hauled him in and still be fifty feet in the air.
The Terror
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Places on the bus are limited to fifty - so book early!
