fifty-nine
五十九,第五十九次,第五十九,五十九个
Definitions
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- : a cardinal number, 50 plus 9.
- : a symbol for this number, as 59 or LIX.
- : a set of this many persons or things.
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- : amounting to 59 in number.
Examples
This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.
The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.
If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
Nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.
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.
In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.
Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.