Sentence examples for seventy from inspiring English sources

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The word "seventy" is correct and well written
It is used to denote the number 70 in both written and spoken English.
Example: "There are seventy students enrolled in the class this semester."
Alternatives: "Seventieth" or "The number 70."

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seventy

numeral

The cardinal number occurring after sixty-nine and before seventy-one, represented in Roman numerals as LXX and in Arabic numerals as 70.

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Seventy percent of these children, or 210,000, are born in Africa.

Seventy years later, Zdenka sits beside the window of a mansion block flat overlooking Hyde Park in London; by an extraordinary twist, a plaque on the building identifies it as the location where a plot was hatched by the exiled Czech underground to assassinate the Third Reich's emissary to Prague, Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.

On this particular Wednesday, there are perhaps seventy attendees.

Seventy years later, then, you might expect that the Queen would wish to mark the date of the night that the war formally ended in Europe for personal as well as patriotic reasons – perhaps staying close to the palace, where she stood on the balcony with her father George VI and Winston Churchill.

Seventy years ago the average income in America's South was $314 a year.

Seventy per cent of them say America is headed in the wrong direction.The Clinton machine only exaggerated this problem.

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That journey through the Californian desert to find fame and fortune, stocked up with "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-coloured uppers", was also, Mr Thompson claimed, "a classic confirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character".

Seventy thousand devotees go crazy, and shower him with the kind of ear-splitting applause that is usually reserved for film stars, rock stars and royalty.

Seventy-six yeafterfthe the New Deal eased America out of depression, United States congressmen – Democrats as well as Republicans – are rejecting President Obama's healthcare plans on a matter of principle.

Seventy-five per cent of SNP supporters said that they would vote for the party with the best Scotland-wide policies or leader for Scotland, or for the party with the best approach to devolution and independence.

Seventy-five per cent owned by the BBC, it's practically a gold standard.

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