fifty-three
10
1.0
- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti θri/
:
cincuenta y tres
- In forty-three of the fifty-three cases, both parents were Canadian-born.
- fifty-three percent
- fifty-three years
- fifty-three years old
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Fourteen of the fifty-three HBCUs had a decline in enrollment during the nine-year period.
Academic text (2002) -
In 1920, the Russell Sage Foundation ranked Hawai'i's system twenty-third among the fifty-three states and territories in the country.
Academic text (1995) -
Three months later, I got a money order from Brad for fifty-three dollars.
Fiction book (1992) -
In an attempt to answer these questions, I contacted fifty-three lawyers.
Academic text (2017) -
At the arcade, he told the man he had four hundred fifty-three tickets.
Fiction book (2001) -
I went to every MENC conference except one in fifty-three years.
Academic text (1997) -
When he scored fifty-three points against Deadwood his senior year, they were sure of it.
Fiction book (1993) -
Dell was suspended beginning July 5, placing the fifty-three-year-old's career as a Methodist minister on hold.
Academic text (1999) -
Ninety-one more students were located nearby: seven elsewhere in Illinois, fifty-three in Indiana, and thirty-one in Iowa.
Academic text (1990) -
She died of hepatitis at the age of fifty-three.
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Fifty-three is made from fifty ('five tens') and three ('three'). So it means 'three more than fifty', and you can think of it as five groups of ten plus three to remember the number.