Sentence examples for fifty from inspiring English sources
numeral
The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
Related: Elizabeth Warren on the presidency: Fifty shades of nay Warren, a senator for Massachusetts, is refusing to enter the race, to the frustration of liberal Democrats who have been imploring her to run.
"You are the boss, we are your servants," Clegg said, as if borrowing dialogue from Fifty Shades.
Fifty minutes later, the audience reacted with what he describes as "shocked applause".
A Wanted Man, also by Lee Child, was the second most popular while Fifty Shades of Grey became the third most borrowed book in UK libraries in 2012-13.
The 25-title chart is dominated, as it has been for much of the summer, by EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy – itself originally published as fan fiction.
Fifty feet above it, shards of Hadrian's Wall stubornly clung to the top of a vast crag.
Fifty years ago Mexico was one of the world's great producers of people.
Shades of (Gricean?) implicature here: if I say "you can have five dollars" I mean "five dollars and only five", not "fifty dollars and my watch".
A generation ago, Warren says, basics (housing costs, health insurance, transportation, education, and taxes) accounted for fifty-four per cent of the average family's income.
In total, only twelve of the fifty-four partieitherher signed the manifesto or agreed orally.
One hundred and fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best-known and most beloved speeches in American history.
