ninety-four
- numeral
- The store has a sale on shoes priced at ninety-four dollars each.
- ninety-four percent
Examples
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Acid gases will be approximately ninety-four percent controlled.
Academic text (1993) -
"And my mother lived to be ninety-four."
Fiction book (1999) -
Ninety-four percent of the 53 directors of social services were white, and the remaining 6 percent were black.
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This special issue of Southwest Review is remarkable in the magazine's ninety-four year history for several reasons.
Academic text (2009) -
In January 1948, the document was published as a ninety-four-page book and widely distributed.
Academic text (1997) -
Participants in this study were ninety-four parents of seventh-grade students in four physical education and two health classes, all taught by the same teacher.
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Ninety-four percent of respondents were between the ages of 25 and 34.
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Ninety-four participants representing eighteen American states and four other countries attended the four-and-a-half-day event.
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Twenty-three thousand of the town's ninety-four thousand residents are Orthodox and Hasidic Jews.
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In 1998, almost ninety-four percent of Mexican exports were to the NAFTA region: 87.5% to the United States and 6.3% to Canada.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
A Roman way to write the number 94
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ninety-four is simply the number ninety plus four, so it literally means 'four more than ninety' or 'ninety and four'. A helpful image is ninety objects in a row with four extra ones added to make ninety-four, which shows why the word names that many things.