How To Use Sixty-four In A Sentence
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France sent a massive sixty-four-vessel armada to Louisbourg, only to have it disrupted en route by storms, calms, and disease.
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These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order.
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Sixty-four-year-old David Masilo has learnt gardening skills and now, with a donation of land by Region 4, is a proud gardener with rows of Chinese cabbages, spinach, carrots and turnips.
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A sum not exceeding thirty-two thousand eight hundred sixty-four dollars and fourteen cents is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of the Metropolitan Park System, Nantasket, Maintenance Fund, for the care and maintenance of the Nantasket beach reservation by the metropolitan park commission, during the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the same to be covered by assessments upon certain cities and towns in the metropolitan district, in accordance Nantasket beach reserva - tion, mainte - nance.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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This dark central group of cells is surrounded by a lighter spherical membrane, consisting of sixty-four cube-shaped, small, and fine-grained cells which lie close together in a single stratum, and only colour slightly in osmic acid (Figure 1.72 e).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The great quantity of oxygen, or vital air, both in the water of dilution, and in the fermentable matter, with which the fluid is more or less saturated, should be also recollected, which is about eighty-five parts in the former, and sixty-four parts of one hundred in the latter.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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The First Reader made a thin 18mo book of seventy-two pages, having green paper covered sides; the Second Reader contained one hundred and sixty-four pages of the same size.
A History of the McGuffey Readers
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And, as Humpty Dumpty noted: ‘There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get unbirthday presents’.
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The one on the right subdivided into sixty-four squares, the monitor on the left drew down three script lists.
CHAMELEON
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Cf the printing terms 32mo (thirty-twomo) & 64mo (sixty-fourmo).
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St. Joseph; twenty in two fascine batteries, and four men-of-war, mounting sixty-four guns each.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The I Ching, oriental mysticism, is based on sixty-four hexagrams.
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In fact, of the 172 living Oto-Manguean tongues, sixty-four are Zapotecan.
Indigenous Mexico: an overview
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Who would employ a sixty-four-year-old man when there were thousands of young men struggling to find work?
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Sixty-four different combinations of six broken or unbroken lines produce sixty-four different hexagrams.
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The wooden board had a checkered pattern of sixty-four black and white squares and a compartment on either side of the board.
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Whenever I mention an activity any time in advance, whether it’s months or even years, my 5 year old boy will always say “how many sleeps is that”, with his favorite big number at the moment being sixty-four hundred.
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_out-door relief_ was given _from the public funds_ to thirty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-two more -- making in all seventy-three thousand two hundred and sixty-four persons, or one out of every five, in the city of New York, dependent, more or less, on _public charity_.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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Will we all survive until the year 2000? That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question.
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If 3 percent interest were given on the unpaid balance, then sixty-four years would be necessary.
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Place the Queen on a chessboard and pass her over the entire sixty-four squares and back again to the point of beginning in fourteen moves.
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In another "House," I have seen the children take the entire box, empty the sixty-four colour-tablets upon the table and after carefully mixing them, rapidly collect them into groups and arrange them in gradation, constructing a species of little carpet of delicately coloured and intermingling tints.
The Montessori Method
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On that night sixty-four names were given in for nomination as members and associates.
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Sixty-four percent had radiographic responses and improvements in respiratory symptomatology.
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Miss Clara: she had a large casque with a red horse-hair plume (I thought it had been a wisp of her brother's beard at first), and held a tin-headed spear in her hand, representing a Roman warrior in the great picture of "Caractacus" George was painting -- a piece sixty-four feet by eighteen.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order.
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But we had one thing-that was unity and friendship amongst sixty-four different tribes....
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That would mean that a majority of senators could establish a new rule allowing debate to be shut off with only a simple majority, not the usual and nearly unobtainable sixty-four votes.
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Cf the printing terms 32mo (thirty-twomo) & 64mo (sixty-fourmo).
On twoth
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Sixty-four percent said they opposed an amendment, 28 percent said they favored the proposal.
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A life devoted to instant gratification produces permanent infantilization: ‘at sixty-four… tastes are what they were at seventeen.’
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Eighty chalders of coals, at four shillings and twopence a chalder, suffices throughout the whole year; and because coal will not burn without wood, says the household book, sixty-four loads of great wood are also allowed, at twelvepence a load. (p. 22.)
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse.
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Sixty-four percent of those polled said their pets tried to hide in a safe place, 56 percent said they whined or cried, 52 percent said they became hyperactive, erratic or made unpredictable movements, and 36 percent said they barked or meowed persistently.
Do Pets Have A Sixth Sense?
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Sixty-four percent of shareholders, accounting for 94% of shares, backed the takeover bid.
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He was sixty-four when he stepped down on March sixth, nineteen eighty-one.
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The land is let on lease for terms as long sometimes as sixty-four years, and is sometimes underlet at greatly increased prices to the ultimate tenants, whose precarious condition brings the "head" landlord into undeserved odium.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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The second I said it I kind of tensed and told myself I should be humoring him, that I was a sixty-four-year-old man with high blood pressure and worse cholesterol and he looked like a cruiserweight boxer.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The British had knocked out radio communications but a mobile transmitter had announced, referring to the General Assembly resolution, that sixty-four nations were supporting the Egyptians.36
Eisenhower 1956
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She was sixty-four years of age, and laboured under scirrhus of the breast.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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For sixty-four bars he synchronizes his every movement with Fred, playing flawlessly before a camera that runs nonstop, until he's no longer giving a dancelike performance at a shoeshine stand, but dancing.
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The wooden board had a checkered pattern of sixty-four black and white squares and a compartment on either side of the board.
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A line of bubbles streamed out, sixty-four fithp falling above the fluffy cloudscape.
I Don’t Understand ?
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In the sixty-fourth poem, however, the epyllion which the author of the
Vergil
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I must also say that like Matt of No-sword, from whom I got the link, I prefer the resonant older names like sexagesimo-quarto to the oafish new-style sixty-fourmo and its fellows.
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Sixty-four percent said they opposed an amendment, 28 percent said they favored the proposal.
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I weigh a-hundred-sixty-four pounds.
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Cf the printing terms 32mo (thirty-twomo) & 64mo (sixty-fourmo).
On twoth
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Sixty-four-year-old Spector will remain free on $1 million bond.
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The Rev. James M'Hall, of Hollymount, Mayo, mentions the startling fact, that a poor man in his neighbourhood having opened a pit, where he had stored six barrels of potatoes, of sixty-four stone each, _found he had not one stone of sound potatoes_!
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
