fifty-five

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• “It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.

• The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.

• The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.

• After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

• “The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

• The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

• In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.

• Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.

• I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

• Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.