How To Use Ninety-nine In A Sentence

  • Out of ninety-nine people screened for the study, sixteen were diagnosed as caffeine dependent after undergoing a battery of evaluations.
  • Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.
  • Ninety-nine percent of that has gone toward person-to-person canvassing,’ said Joy, who showed me around.
  • Ninety-nine to 100% turnouts in some provinces that reportedly also ran out of ballots, such as Yazd, does not add up, suggesting that ballots were pre-allocated in favor of the incumbent. Olivia Sterns: Revolution? No. Regime Change? Maybe
  • There is literally no limit to the number and nature of potentially career-destroying scrapes into which undergraduate law, medical and other students inevitably get themselves, and the beauty of having a wise old Arthur en poste, who enjoyed the complete trust and confidence of the warden, was that ninety-nine times out of a hundred Arthur could somehow get them out of it. The Earth Goddess
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  • Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.
  • Suppose there was something else in my life that took the other ninety-nine parts, and, furthermore, that ruined my figure, that put pouches under my eyes and crows-feet in the corners, that made me unbeautiful to look upon and that made my spirit unbeautiful. Chapter XIX
  • Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 
  • Malken can get poetically drunk, and usually does, on one cocktail; Aaron Hancock is an expert wine-bibber; and Terrence McFane, knowing little of one drink from another, and caring less, can put ninety-nine men out of a hundred under the table and go right on lucidly expounding epicurean anarchy. CHAPTER X
  • Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.
  • These Sheikhs are a peculiar institution in the Soudan; they are supposed to be men under the special protection of a particular angel of God, whose interposition is effected by the Sheikh having isolated himself for eight or nine hours daily during a term of years, and constantly repeating all that time one of the ninety-nine names of God. Three Months in the Soudan
  • Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, they discover that the existing, traditional way is the best.
  • Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 
  • It was the fourth day, and I was lounging in the camp's little market, improving my Persian by learning the ninety-nine names of God (only the Bactrian camels know the hundredth, which is why they look so deuced superior) from an Astrabad caravan-guard-turned-murderer, when Kutebar came in a great bustle to take me to Yakub Beg at once. The Sky Writer
  • 'Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points; it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your self - denial, which must evidence, or rather instance and realize, your faith.' Abbeychurch
  • That's too hootin 'goldarn many for anybody to stand, by ninety-nine per cent., so Bill slams him one. Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters
  • Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
  • A table of thirty-something guys made billionaires by the NASDAQ back in ninety-nine. SILENT JOE
  • I should never object to calling a graceless duke Tour Grace: nor to praying for a villariously bad monarch as our most religious and gracious King (I know quite well, small critic, that religious is an absurd mistranslation: but let us take the liturgy in the sense in which ninety-nine out of every hundred who hear it understand it): for it seems to me that the daily recurring phrases are something ever suggesting what mankind have a right to expect from those in eminent station; and a kindly determination to believe that such are at least endeavoring to be what they ought. The Recreations of a Country Parson
  • Ninety-nine per cent of patients are being seen inside the government target of four hours.
  • I took the one per cent of me that was a reckless debauchee like John Seff and imagined that the other ninety-nine per cent didn't exist. That's how novels are written.
  • As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
  • Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
  • The air fare was about a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something like that.
  • Ninety-nine of 229 patients consulted an ophthalmologist during therapy.
  • Ninety-Nine Islands aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA day off in Sasebo, Japan. aaaaaaaaaaI’m down the gangway and gone. October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • Nearly ninety-nine percent of Austrians speak German, although at least four different dialects are in use.
  • Ninety-nine times out of 100 when I have heard Mexicans use the word 'gringo' it's in a way that is deprecatory or worse, usually preceded by 'pinche' -- in other words, designed to be taken as an offense. GRINGOS AND GRINGAS....what's in an appelation?
  • According to the International Cricket Council, ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers chuck!
  • The legislative branch consists of a bicameral general assembly with ninety-nine representatives and thirty senators and the vice president.
  • Members of parliament approved the move by a majority of ninety-nine.
  • Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.
  • Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you are fortunate enough to have a close look at a bruin, you're going to feel exhilarated, not threatened.
  • The girl at the register tells me the combo meal is eight ninety-nine and I nod, acquiescent. Track 8
  • Members of parliament approved the move by a majority of ninety-nine.
  • And wired to zero in on any apparent bad news in a larger stream of information (e.g., fixing on a casual aside from a family member or co-worker), to tune out or de-emphasize reassuring good news, and to keep thinking about the one thing that was negative in a day in which a hundred small things happened, ninety-nine of which were neutral or positive. Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Confronting the Negativity Bias
  • Ninety-nine poets and dramatists out of a hundred would have followed Plutarch and made Cleopatra's love for Antony the mainspring of her being, the causa causans of her self-murder. The Man Shakespeare
  • Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people were interested and enthusiastic and the attitude was very favourable.
  • Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 
  • In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.

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