fifty
IPA: fˈɪfti
noun
- (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
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Examples of "fifty" in Sentences
- Now that's what I call fifty quid an hour well spent.
- I seemed to need to hear a word fifty times for it to register.
- The difference between never becoming fixed, and becoming fixed once in fifty is definitely not random.
- In other words, your record can now come out on a label fifty per cent owned by EMI, and still be magically 'independent'.
- The Ceasefire Campaign on Monday said it was strongly opposed to what it called a fifty percent increase in defence spending over the next three years.
- Lord Durham wrote, over fifty [Errata: (from final page) for _fifty_ read _forty_.] years ago, of the French Canadians: 'They are a people without a history and a literature.'
- He wrote under this title fifty-five papers, which were published twice a week between December, 1715, and June, 1716; and he was rewarded with the post of Commissioner for Trade and Colonies.
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