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seventy-eight

/sev-uhn-tee-eyt/US // ˈsɛv ən tiˈeɪt //

七八十,七十八年,七八,七十八

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 78 or LXXVIII.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 78 in number.

Examples

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

  • The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

  • The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

  • When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

  • After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

  • After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

  • But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.