fifty-nine
9
1.0
- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti naɪn/
:
cincuenta y nueve
- A total of fifty-nine interviews, forty with non-minority and nineteen with minority students, were conducted.
- fifty-nine percent
- hundred and fifty-nine
- fifty-nine years
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Fifty-nine people were treated and released, 37 people remain...
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On May 3, the House Armed Services Committee introduced legislation to eliminate fifty-nine of the 211 annually required reports.
Academic text (1990) -
Then in 1999, at the age of fifty-nine, he found himself in a new situation.
Academic text (2011) -
The moon was a day away from full; the train came at eleven fifty-nine, not noon.
Fiction book (1996) -
Eighth grade: fifty-nine percent scored at or above the basic level.
Academic text (2006) -
At age fifty-nine, Ewing Kelly died of a sudden heart attack.
Academic text (2017) -
Calgary, for example, boasts at least fifty-nine businesses and organizations named after the warm winter wind.
Academic text (1999) -
Altogether, the commission had studied fifty-nine individual research reports and received written recommendations from 1,027 correspondents.
Academic text (1991) -
Only three reached old age—William, who died at seventy; Augustus, fifty-nine; and Howard, fifty-eight.
Fiction book (1991) -
The library has fifty-nine new books available for readers this month.
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Fifty-nine is simply the number fifty plus nine. Think of fifty as 'five tens', so fifty-nine is 'five tens and nine', which is why it means nine more than fifty.