fifty-eight
- numeral
- /ˈfɪfti eɪt/
- Nursing faculty published in forty-four journals, chemistry in sixty-two journals, biology in fifty-eight journals, and mathematics in thirty-nine journals.
- Fifty-eight percent
- Fifty-eight respondents
- Fifty-eight years
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The committee received fifty-eight applications for the scholarship.
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In 2013, there were fifty-eight pickers registered with TDPS, mostly men ranging in age from seventeen to seventy-one years old.
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Pakistan has had a military government for thirty of its fifty-eight years of independence.
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"Her father, fifty-eight-year-old Jesus Rojo, confirmed her statement: "My kids love the nature shows on television."
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The first free all-German election in fifty-eight years was held on 2 December 1990.
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At the age of fifty-eight, she still fit into a silk skirt she bought before Cecily was born.
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Overall, forty-five of fifty-eight candidates endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters were elected.
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The League of Conservation Voters backed fifty-eight candidates, including forty-nine Democrats and one Independent.
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Between December 1933 and May 1934, fifty-eight responses were published, each accompanied by commentary from Aragon.
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Although only seventy-six of ninety-four eligible adults cast ballots, fifty-eight were in favor of the new government.
Academic text (2000)
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Etymology
Fifty-eight is simply the number fifty ('five tens') plus eight, so it means 'five tens plus eight'.