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Discover LudwigThe phrase "twenty-odd" is correct and usable in written English
It is often used to refer to a vague, uncertain, or approximate quantity, especially a small quantity or number. For example, "I had twenty-odd students in my class this semester."
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They earned twenty-odd dollars that summer.
So twenty-odd minutes of figure skating to go.
Recall one twenty-odd years ago, in Cambridge.
Selya and Roberts have both worked for her for twenty-odd years.
Mojang, which employs twenty-odd people, has a flat management structure and loose working hours.
Mrs. von Hesse has been in that work for twenty-odd years.
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Dream River, Callahan's 15th-odd album, strengthens that claim further with an album about flying, dying and painting boats.
"Fuck hashtags and retweets," runs one offhand soundbite from Tom Ford, a juicy cut from Jay-Z's entertaining 13th-odd album.
Those who like their Will Oldham albums straight-up, sparse and intimate will find Wolfroy – the Kentucky singer-songwriter's 16th-odd album – right up their street.
Hundreds of protesters have been there since 12 July; staring down their 50th-odd night on 31 August, the group was running low on ice and water.
But those were not for sale here, at the 10th-odd Swarovski boutique to arrive in the metropolitan area, well timed to what has become known, with apparent grammatical rectitude but developing dissonance, as "gifting season".
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