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- So far today I've eaten one banana (90 calories), one yogurt (120), and two crispbreads (80 calories).
- 120 minutes
- 120 hours
- 120 days
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Overall, time spent on music can range from 15 to 120 minutes per week.
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Since last year, some 120 countries have recognized a "state of Palestine" drawn along the 1967 borders.
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The western forces are stopped 120 miles from the sea.
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Direct investment abroad rose from 53 billion to 120 billion in this period.
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"We were given 120 e-readers to set up for the staff and other users.
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The average salary for a football coach at a top 120 school is $1.36 million.
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Also, the London-based International Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting procedures for over 120 countries, needs updating.
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One was the fishermen's cooperative, which had 120 members and employed six full- and part-time dock personnel.
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Smolts will be ferried from the hatchery to some 120 farms by helicopter.
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The cost of the new bicycle was 120 dollars.
Synonyms
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A number equal to 120, ten more than one hundred ten
The number one hundred and twenty
An old way to count that is 120
An old way to mean 120, not 100, used when counting goods
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Etymology
120 Comes from the Arabic number system we use today, where each digit shows hundreds, tens, or ones, so 120 reads as 'one hundred twenty'. Think of it as one 'hundred', the 1 in the hundreds place, plus two 'tens', the 2 in the tens place, which is why 120 means that total.