fifty-five
五十五,五五,五十五岁,五十五个
Definitions
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- : a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
- : a symbol for this number, as 55 or LV.
- : a set of this many persons or things.
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- : amounting to 55 in number.
Examples
“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.
Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.