How To Use Ninety In A Sentence

You died near ninety, still unbelieving, unconfessed, and unreceived.
Boys go in groups of fifteen to thirty to bush camps, where they stay for ninety to a hundred days to recover from the operation.
Ninety percent of the students in Quashie's class bombed the midterm.
Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety-fourth, beginning with the words Travels in Arabia
Details: Ninety-eight percent of the forage in the New River is crayfish, and Green Pumpkin best matches their molted color. Favorite Lures of the Smallmouth Guides

Terms of more than ninety days are not unusual. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.
Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
Without benefit of notes, visual aids, gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.
Let ABC be an angle of ninety degrees.
In California thieves can remove a platinum-filled catalytic converter in ninety seconds. Apocalyptic Fun With Peak Everything « Skid Roche
Ninety percent of the people surveyed were in favour.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.
Ninety-four percent of uterine cancers begin in the lining of the uterus, also called the endometrium. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
The top one percent of the population has acuminated more wealth than the bottom ninety percent put together. Are We In the Twilight of the Great America
In 1619 the Company sent ninety women to delight the men and assure the future of the colony.
Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage.
Within ninety minutes the ship was ready for departure.
She's four feet, nine inches tall, and only weighs ninety pounds.
Ninety percent of the work featured in the Arts and Crafts Gallery, for instance, is crafted by local artists, with an emphasis on such media as glasswork, ceramics, woodworking and woven textiles.
Ninety-seven percent of those qualified to vote did so and a new democratic constitution was adopted by unanimous vote.
By the end of this term ninety souls were added to the flock. History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ninety percent of the chemicals used in fluoridation in the United States do not occur naturally. Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Health Hazards of Water Fluoridation (VIDEO)
Ninety-seventh Street," he said, "and what a pesthole it always was. HOPE TO DIE
He described times when the radar crew received requests for winds aloft at eighty thousand feet, ninety thousand feet.
Ninety-nine per cent of primary pupils now have hands-on experience of computers.
Barely ninety minutes after being given the boot by that bogtrotter sergeant, she was sipping coffee in the RTE studios in Donnybrook, yakking to Gaffney while some other guy did sound checks on her mike. The Priest
Either spacetime could be made to fold, skipping ninety lightyears and putting the colony ship only seven years away from the earthlike planet that was its destination, or the ship would obliterate itself in the attempt . . . or nothing would happen at all, and it would crawl on for nine hundred more years before reaching its new world. Pathfinder
On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
The air fare was about a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something like that.
Ninety solar panels wrap the south side and canopy the bedroom terrace, blocking the sun and generating an energy credit.
Not only that… she went on to tell me she was nearly ninety, she had cataracts in both eyes, arthritis in her wrists and she was in constant pain.
Ninety-two percent of this acreage is now in the twelve western states, except Hawaii.
The vessels forming the flotilla consisted of praams, ship-rigged, and brigs carrying one or two eighteen or twenty-four pounders, and the largest a thirty-two pounder (with sixty or ninety men), all of them flat-bottomed. A Sailor of King George
All of their angles are whole numbers of degrees and no angle exceeds ninety degrees. Times, Sunday Times
Ninety per cent of the 162 submissions opposed the nationwide introduction of e-voting as currently envisaged.
Ninety-odd photos from an archive of more than 5000 in the Akademie der Künste Berlin held me in fascination for most of the afternoon - beautifully expressive, often richly textured - but what I may remember even more vividly is the hour-long film portrait of her, made in 1992 by Antonia Lerch. 'All the new beginnings...'
It placed a counter in the start-up routine of the computer and after ninety reboots (deemed a sufficient time to pay for the intellectual goods) it initiated a process that encrypted the names of most of the files on the hard disk.
Larry Page was Google's founding CEO when he launched the company with Sergey Brin in nineteen ninety-eight.
_ On November [_sic_] nineteen, one thousand five hundred and ninety-one, there met and assembled before me in Manila, Esteban de Marquina, public and cabildo notary of this city, and the magistrates and regimiento of the same -- namely, Captain The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Ninety-five per cent of its magnificent collection will remain inaccessible to the public.
Ninety five percent confidence intervals for the relative risk was calculated using exact probabilities.
Employed in the mailroom at CBC and called upon once in a while to do part-time stagehand chores, I jumped at the chance to work on Ninety Minutes Live for a week, much of it spent being a gopher for the host.
The lift-off took place with a Disco at Tramore Racecourse and ninety teenagers supported the fund raising venture and thoroughly enjoyed themselves without the merest hint of a hiccup.
Like ninety per cent of her fellow students she has chosen American. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
Ninety-five per cent of conjoined twins die within 24 hours of birth. The Sun
The chapter extends to more than ninety pages.
Ninety percent of the store's offerings are gilded in 22 to 23 karats or 12 - karat white gold, according to Carroll.
But a public warning over radio wasn't broadcast for nearly ninety minutes.
For example, the broad wainscoted side hall terminates in a staircase that rises to a landing and then turns ninety degrees in a manner similar to that at Mulberry Hill.
He must be ninety if he's still alive.
Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher. Wildwood
The nonius, never in common use, consisted essentially of forty-six concentric circles divided into quadrants by two diameters at right angles to each other, each quadrantal arc being divided into equal parts, the number of parts diminishing from ninety for the outermost arc to forty-five for the innermost. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Ninety-nine of 229 patients consulted an ophthalmologist during therapy.
This airborne variant of Ebola is currently under study and we should have a vaccine for it in production within ninety days.
Within ninety minutes the ship was ready for departure.
And why was he “going to die anyway,” just because he was ninety years old, or is there some other reason we arenot being told? CALM WATERS • by Oonah V Joslin
The number of centenarians has risen ninetyfold over the past century as life expectancy has increased. Times, Sunday Times
To our amazement, when we returned to China, the Moso tree had grown an impressive ninety feet.
“Emma,” Nima said, “the answer to your conic geometry question—which is my specialty—is ninety times pi.” Times Squared
Dad might be nearly ninety but he's still young at heart.
The calculation from the Valdez base should, however, be taken into consideration in making this barometric determination, and the mean of the two results, twenty thousand six hundred and ninety-six feet, or, roundly, _twenty thousand seven hundred feet_, is offered as the contribution of this expedition toward determining the true altitude of the mountain. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
The picture of the bewhiskered trio, as he had last seen them, mulcted of four dollars and ninety cents and a ferry ticket, made him chuckle. Chapter 34
Ninety-five per cent of its magnificent collection will remain inaccessible to the public.
We would know they were lying and would be about ninety percent certain Lucia was dead. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'. Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
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
Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round! Lord Kilgobbin
The Hutterites manage their expansion so that on the average each colony consists of from ninety to one hundred persons.
While nearly ninety she still devotes her time to causes that were of particular interest to Bertil, as well as her own and continues to live at Villa Solbacken.
Genius is one percent, inspiration and ninety - nine percent, perspiration.
There is a history of syphilis in from seventy-five to ninety per cent of all tabetic cases.
Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Several years ago, shortly after Clyde Tombaugh died at the age of ninety, Pluto's planethood was thrown into question.
Her painted cheeks swivelled through an angle of ninety degrees. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
These drawings, which Sargent's sisters had given to the Gorcoran Gallery of Art in 1928, were among ninety drawings that the Gorcoran deaccessioned in 1960.
My grandfather died at home at the age of ninety, after a slow decline from Alzheimer's disease.
Nearly ninety-nine percent of Austrians speak German, although at least four different dialects are in use.
Ninety-five per cent of members in our NOP survey said the main priority for the Government should be to ensure that all young people leave school literate and numerate.
Ninety-eight percent of his remarks are highly technical - utterly brilliant in their command of detail, virtually unquotable in their density of jargon.
In the film, we have ninety or a hundred minutes of good looking youngsters, who are being savagely attacked on an isolated island, near an abandoned rave.
Driving between eighty and ninety, he barely heard Janey's screed against Drew as he tried to stay focused. VAPOR TRAIL
The ville surrounding it only contained ninety-five houses, paying gabel-tax, in the Norman survey. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
Recently a dose of ninety-six grains, taken toxically, produced giddiness, then epileptic convulsions, with dilated pupils, and stertor of breathing. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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?
There was a ninety-degree turn to the left, and a street sign dead ahead.
The desert was hot, and the temperature was never less than ninety degrees during the day.
Although his professional career slowed down in the 1980s, he continued to work until his death at the age of ninety in 2003.
A Talking Picture" (2003, Manoel de Oliveira): The great September 11th movie, from a spry ninety-five-year-old who sees not only the century's long view but seemingly encompasses Homer's.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - nine percent of perspiration.
It was decided she had to stay another ninety days.
According to the International Cricket Council, ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers chuck!
Ninety-six percent of the company's power comes from hydroelectricity, half of which is generated on Cree territory, she said.
The legislative branch consists of a bicameral general assembly with ninety-nine representatives and thirty senators and the vice president.
By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.
Ninety-five percent of the curatorial staff must have been hired by me - it's been twenty-seven years.
A fingernail scraping of ambergris dissolved in water, then added to the sauce, is credited with aphrodisiacal powers - which might help explain its price of ninety dollars per ounce.
Ultimately, if Celtic are to win they will need to produce their greatest ninety minutes for many years.
Champions among these are the two species of sicklebills, whose bills are the only ones that properly slip into flowers of the Andean lobelioids that are bent at a ninety-degree angle.
And in 1752 he described one hundred and ninety experiments for determining what parts of the body possess "irritability" -- that is, the property of contracting when stimulated. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh.
The Greylock reserva - tion commission, established by chapter five hundred and forty-three of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety - eight, in this and the following section called the commis - sion, shall continue to serve as an unpaid commission, consisting of three persons, all of whom shall be residents of the county of Berkshire. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Members of parliament approved the move by a majority of ninety-nine.
In nineteen ninety four uh it was almost like a mini presidential election, it was the first nationalized congressional election.
Genius is one percent of inspiration and ninety - nine percent of perspiration.
The famous writer is still sharp in thought though he has attained the age of ninety-two.
The man was about ninety, and really not my type at all, besides being a complete stranger.
They enrolled their children in expensive international schools and installed their diamonded wives in half million dollar condos, furnished with Chinese maids who worked for ninety cents an hour. Steve Posner: The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?
The last three or four weeks I've been working flat out, ninety to a hundred and ten hours a week.
But, the materials are anisotropic, so are opaque when viewed at ninety degrees to their transparent view, which means they could be used as magnetically switchable pixels in a flat display.
At the age of ninety, Kennan published Around the Cragged Hill.
Ninety-two percent of women said dependability is a desirable characteristic in an ideal mate.
Action films abound in cineplexes across the world, providing audience members with a brief adrenaline rush and occupying ninety minutes of their time.
Convention itself took less than ninety minutes to complete, and it really was a low key affair throughout.
Ninety-five percent is used as pizza topping, while the remainder is made into sliced or ‘portioned’ cheese.
Ninety percent of all applicants are interviewed by a clinical psychologist.
Reincarnational cycles are a more reasonable explanation for the different states of evolution in which mankind is found, than the common Western theory which assumes that something (consciousness of egoity) came out of nothing, existed with varying degrees of lustihood for thirty or ninety years, and then returned to the original void. Autobiography of a Yogi
As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
Ninety three consecutive patients presenting between 1980 and 1988 whose notes were still available were followed up.
'Nay, father will live while he's ninety, or happen a hunderd; he's as tough as a yak-stowp.' More Tales of the Ridings
Ninety years ago this week, the world's most famous ocean liner sank to a frigid grave in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.
Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The famous writer is still sharp in thought though he has attained the age of ninety-two.
The Gunners had the most disastrous of starts, conceding a goal to the deadly dangerous John O'Brien inside a minute and going four points behind with just ninety seconds on the clock.
Ninety percent of the projected missiles will hit their target.
The CDC has reported that at least half of the two million nosocomial infections, and half of the ninety-eight thousand deaths estimated by the IOM to result annually from these infections, could be prevented if physicians and the hospital staff under their supervision would follow the handwashing and related policies on asepsis which have been established as standard procedure in each acute-care hospital in the nation. Doctors Are Spreading Infections That Kill Patients
When Ramses II was over eighty he celebrated his rejuvenation at the feast of Set, repeating it yearly until he was ninety and more, and displaying his power of rejuvenation to the Gods above in the Obelisks he regularly erected as a memorial, which the aged Pharaoh decorated with electrum at the top so that their brightness should pour over lands of Egypt when the sun was mirrored in them. Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs
Ninety per cent of young male offenders have been excluded from school. Times, Sunday Times
For about a third of every ninety-minute orbit, as Earth eclipses the Sun, the station orbits in darkness.
So, for a wolverine, living to ninety or a hundred or more would not be a big deal.
Ninety-two percent of women said dependability is a desirable characteristic in an ideal mate.
You passed the ball to your team-mates, and slogged your guts out for ninety minutes upwards?
Her painted cheeks swivelled through an angle of ninety degrees. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Her painted cheeks swivelled through an angle of ninety degrees. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.
Ninety per cent of the peasantry was stuck in a serfdom that offered few ways out.
Anything above ninety-three percent purity is weapons-grade. CHAMELEON
Declining health was to be expected in a man nearly ninety.
The ninety mile per hour fastball narrowly missed his head as the young black superstar dropped to the dirt.
The day of the fire the thermometer reached a record ninety-seven degrees in Helena; it surely topped that in the narrow confines of the gulch about twenty-five miles to the north.
According to government statistics, it is said ninety-eight percent of the American people are living from day to day on their wages, which means that a loss of employment would result in pauperism for all but two percent. Victorious Peace
Darling River ninety miles higher up than where we first struck upon it. Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the Colony of New South Wales, by Charles Sturt
Ninety per cent of my life is quite mundane. The Sun
It should be quite fun to young people from nine to ninety!
Bones, from St. Louis, is a very aesthetic person who couldn't weigh any more than ninety pounds.
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 driver pulled up to the curb and the traffic cop told him that he had been doing ninety-eight-a really breakneck speed.
Beside her was Jason, a tall gangly guy sporting what looked like ninety pounds of hair gel, and a good natured goofy grin.
The learned professions, or black arts, lost at least ninety-five per cent in importance; and so rapid as been the increase of the evil, that, at this time of day, it is a hard matter to impose on any clodpole in Europe! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
The girl at the register tells me the combo meal is eight ninety-nine and I nod, acquiescent. Track 8
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
She will, when ninety-five and expecting the gasman, get horribly nervous in case the boiler blows up.
Ninety percent of debtors paid up in 1979 rather than tolerate the presence of the malodorous individual in reception for another five minutes.
A ninety-minute nap also represents a full Basic Rest Activity Cycle, which guarantees the napper the benefits of all four sleep stages. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
Of the 32 babies Dearborn and his colleagues have treated, he says, ‘Ninety percent have come from water-damaged homes containing toxigenic fungi and environmental tobacco smoke.’
About ninety Wampanoag Indians joined the celebration.
I, on the other hand, was five feet and three inches and weighed about ninety pounds, as I would guess.
At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
Ninety-five percent confidence bounds were calculated using the standard normal distribution.
Karl maneuvered his vehicle around next to the well head, the truck's ninety-decibel backup signal announcing his presence.
Ninety per cent of practising lawyers agree. Times, Sunday Times
We passed through a gopura ninety feet high, next through a passage one hundred and seventy feet long, then through a small gopura, when we arrived at the large outer enclosure of the temple, four hundred and fifty by eight hundred feet. Travels in the Far East
When I was elected President, I told an interviewer that my favorite movie was High Noon. At the time, Fred Zinnemann, its director, was nearly ninety, living in London.
With consummate showmanship, he closed the ninety-minute set with a third encore, that first, huge hit, the one we'd all been waiting for. DEAD BEAT
And among the skirmishers were the Rifles, the men of the Ninety-fifth. Beyond the Sunrise
Bradman reached 50 in ninety-three minutes by forcing a ball from Allen to the on for four.
Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.
It has an eight inch bore, and is tubed through ninety feet of earth and ten feet into the rock; the remaining three hundred and fifty feet is without tube, being all in red sandstone.
The first, by Edward Fox, has the virtue of being an elegantly written but very slender ninety-five pages, one of a series of bite-size lives launched this year by Short Books.
It contains some three hundred bird species, ninety mammals, fifty species of fish big and small with one thousand seven hundred flowering plants.
Genius in one percent inspiration and ninety - nine percent perspiration.
All of their angles are whole numbers of degrees and no angle exceeds ninety degrees. Times, Sunday Times
At the age of ninety, Hamilton published her translation of Prometheus Bound.
If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Yogi Berra
Ninety years wedded is the unique record of Francisco Espor, aged one hundred and ten, and his wife, Rafael, aged one hundred and seven. Could This Be a Marriage Record?
The Admiral Barbarossa, eighty-four years of age, used to call Doria, his eternal rival nearly ninety years old, "my brother. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
Ninety-five percent of all malignant gastric tumors are adenocarcinomas; the remaining 5 percent include lymphomas, stromal tumors, and other rare tumors.
John M. died a bachelor at the age of ninety in 1878 and was the last of those living who helped rebuild the town's church after a devastating fire in 1811.
Ninety percent of Mali's population is concentrated in the southern regions - Kayes, Koulikoro, Sikasso, Ségou, and Mopti.
From the early seventies, the programmes started at 4.10, filling a ninety-minute period.
Members of parliament approved the move by a majority of ninety-nine.
From the main entrance to the catacombs, which is near the barriers d'Enfer, a flight of ninety steps descends, at whose foot galleries are seen branching in various directions. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
Airspeed ten knots, groundspeed ninety, full power on the last engine, throw the disc over. LET NOT THE DEEP
He described times when the radar crew received requests for winds aloft at eighty thousand feet, ninety thousand feet.
A man who is nearly ninety said to me recently that he always found that the poor during the depression were more generous with the little they had than those who were better off.
Ninety percent of the collections are gifts or bequests.
His workshop is an introduction to a healthy lifestyle of fun, walking and exercise and lasts for ninety minutes.
In a single summer of public disinterest, ninety million of the Walt Disney Company's simoleons disappeared into a sea of red ink.
At the age of ninety, Kennan published Around the Cragged Hill (WW Norton, 1994).
Ninety percent of the managers waited until Friday afternoon to reply to Brown.
Three maunds, or ninety pounds of copperah, are thrown into the mill with about three gallons of water, and from this is produced three maunds, or seven and three-quarter gallons of oil. 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
And the clothing worn by a Japanese balloonist in nineteen ninety - four .
By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.
Ninety percent of its damage was done in the first 10 minutes, making it, at that time, the fastest cyberattack in history.
The lake, irregularly shaped and nearly ninety feet deep in some spots, was formerly a gravel pit.
About ninety-five per cent of those who cast their votes approve the new constitution.
The first half of the menstrual cycle, called the follicular phase, begins with pulses of GnRH, about one pulse every ninety minutes. A Baby at Last!
In 1990 alone, 647, 675 new businesses were incorporated nationwide, accounting for ninety percent of the net job growth.

How To Use Ninety In A Sentence

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