sixty-nine
- numeral
- The only copy of this poem known to the literary world is a parchment in quarto format containing sixty-nine leaves in the Cottonian library of the British Museum, marked Vitellius A. IX.
- sixty-nine percent
- sixty-nine years old
- sixty-nine cents
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Fifty-two patients who had received hydroxyethylstarch or iodinated contrast media before brain death were excluded. Sixty-nine other brain-dead patients were prospectively included over 18 months and randomized into two groups.
Academic text (1996) -
Dr. John Gregory's A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, for example, went through at least sixty-nine American editions between 1775 and 1857 (it was also imported) and was often bound together with Chesterfield's Letters.
Academic text (1996) -
A dollar sixty-nine, plus tax.
Fiction book (1994) -
I was then sixteen; she was sixty-nine.
Academic text (1996) -
The Captain replies that his count is sixty-nine.
Academic text (1996) -
He is clutching a plastic car worth about sixty-nine cents.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Dude has his Ralph's Shopper's Club card to one side and is making out a check to Ralph's for sixty-nine cents.
Fiction book (1998) -
Sixty-nine percent of the sample had a B.S. degree or less, and thirty-one percent had post-baccalaureate credentials.
Academic text (1996) -
Henry Hill died yesterday in Los Angeles at age sixty-nine.
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The longtime head of NFL Films died Tuesday at sixty-nine years old.
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Etymology
The word sixty-nine is simply the number made from sixty ('six times ten') and nine ('9'), so it means 'nine more than sixty'.