fifty
- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti/
- We are expecting fifty guests at the party this weekend.
- fifty years
- fifty percent
- fifty-five
We're taking a group of fifty of our closest.
- We're taking a group of fifty of our closest.
- Or we randomly allocated the other fifty people to have nuts.
- I was in diapers as you were hitting fifty and I'm like, Jesus Christ, what happened?
- You know, it's, it's you probably bump into fifty of them a day.
- And you know, I've seen people that are remarried when they're fifty.
- And Paul Terrell, the then owner of the bike shop said he would like to take fifty of these computers.
- And maybe you'll find a a philosopher who's written some publications giving a talk and maybe that person gets fifty hits.
- You put your code, your numbers, fifty my I had the numbers.
- I haven't had dollar or dollar fifty pizza in so long.
- So it was fifty of these for one of these.
- I said, Hey, I like to give her six figures to do a couple posts about this fifty.
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And the Japanese love zoos? There are fifty zoos in Japan, and more being built.
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So let's imagine that we did fifty such tests.
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or a bit more than fifty U.S. dollars? Really.
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And yeah, we were able to get about only fifty of these into the US.
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You could put this in, you could put fifty of these in some hotel, you know, conference room.
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So it was fifty of these for one of these.
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We're taking a group of fifty of our closest.
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They said one or two maybe, but the other fifty were yours.
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And Paul Terrell, the then owner of the bike shop said he would like to take fifty of these computers.
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From 1924 to 1955, she published more than fifty articles mainly on topics relating to Mexico.
Academic text (1990)
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A joking name for a place like Puerto Rico or Canada that people think may become a US state
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Etymology
Fifty comes from an old English way of saying 'five tens'. The start of the word is five and the ending shows 'ten', so fifty is five times ten, which is why it means the number 50.