seventy-nine
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setenta y nueve
- Seventy-nine percent of parents received recommendations about educational programs, and 77.1% found the information useful.
- seventy-nine percent
- seventy-nine years old
- seventy-nine years
Examples
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The total cost of the furniture was seventy-nine dollars.
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The seventy-nine-year-old spymaster had just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctors were giving him less than six months.
Fiction book (2001) -
My mother died on November 22, 1999, at age seventy-nine.
Academic text (2001) -
With the completion of this draw, Blue Hills contained seventy-nine new farming units.
Academic text (2002) -
At seventy-nine years of age, Stansfield was an icon in the intelligence community.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the Provincial Assembly contest, the KMT also won a comfortable majority of forty-eight seats in this seventy-nine-member body.
Academic text (1995) -
Seventy-nine delegates convened at the first annual convention in Greensboro the following year and heard nationally recognized speakers.
Academic text (2003) -
So one day, when I was thirteen years old, I got up early and rode my bike seventy-nine miles, all the way from Santa Fe to Taos.
Fiction book (2001) -
Laurance shows that DoD reports to Congress almost doubled from 1967 to 1972, going from seventy-nine to 134.
Academic text (1990) -
The David Brower he describes is exactly the one I saw—he's now seventy-nine years old and hasn't changed a bit.
Academic text (1991)
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Etymology
The word seventy-nine is made from seventy and nine, and seventy comes from seven + -ty, which means 'ten'. So, seventy-nine simply means 'seven tens plus nine', the number 79.