How To Use Seventy-five In A Sentence
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The city of Worcester may appropriate a sum not exceed - ing seventy-five hundred dollars for the purpose of providing a suitable gift for the U.S. S. "Worcester" to properly com - memorate the dedication and commissioning of the afore - said ship.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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Seventy-five words absolute maximum per entry, but you may submit as many entries as you like.
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The French had been able to spare but few troops for this point, but they had barricaded the streets of the town and posted a company of chasseurs, seventy-five in number, at the bridge with a mitralleuse.
A Journey Through France in War Time
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Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world.
CONSPIRATA
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It cost me fifty quid, or about seventy-five US dollars and I was happy to pay it.
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This book is relatively brief: seventy-five pages of tersely written text plus thirty-six pages of appendices.
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We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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In a seventy-five-mile wind, Hodgeman had several fingers frost-bitten this morning while attending to the anemograph.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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There is a history of syphilis in from seventy-five to ninety per cent of all tabetic cases.
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No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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A hundred miles long and soaring seventy-five hundred feet above the plains, the Macarena is an island of astonishing diversity, one of the richest biological preserves in the world, a lost world of mist and rain that to this day remains largely unexplored.
One River
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We're scheduled for a light flight schedule, about seventy-five percent of the usual cyclic ops.
BALANCE OF POWER
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At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft.
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It was a cruel _snouch_ in the Painter, a fine Girl having paid him seventy-five guineas for an hour's work, and being unable to pay for the other half of her portrait, to exhibit her with such a sarcastic allusion to her private life -- to call her Thais -- to put a torch in her hand, and direct her to set flames to the temple of Chastity.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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Seventy-five of 91 children with autism were found to have measles virus in intestinal biopsy tissue as compared with only five of 70 patients who didn't have autism.
Hot Topics: Autism
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At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft.
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Seventy-five words absolute maximum per entry, but you may submit as many entries as you like.
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The homes were sampled from seventy-five randomly selected areas (generally counties or groups of counties) across the entire country.
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I sent Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me'tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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Seventy-five years ago in August 1932, the German doctor Erwin Schliephake published scientific data in the German Medical Weekly about radio transmitter-induced “microwave” or “radio wave sickness” with the following symptoms: severe tiredness and fatigue during the day, fitful sleep in the night, headaches to the point of intolerability, and high susceptibility to infection.
Op-Ed: Is Microwave Exposure Harming Millions?
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On a certain autumnal Saturday afternoon about seventy-five or more years ago two men entered Willow Glen by the highway from the west, leading between them a wild, shaggy animal, a buffalo recently capured on the prairies, being the first one seen in this part of the country.
Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives
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Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge, where for seventy-five centimes they could hear excellent music and get into the bargain something which it was quite possible to drink: the seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.
Of Human Bondage
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Alvina Closs is seventy-four years old, almost seventy-five, but she looks at least ten years younger.
Excerpt: Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos
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Just at the time that they put their money in, the party that Minnie belonged to came by, and the gentleman put in a silver coin called a thaler, which is worth about seventy-five cents; so that Rollo had the satisfaction of seeing that one of the four millions of dollars was raised on the spot.
Rollo on the Rhine
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It now offers twelve to fourteen classes a week to about seventy-five students in ballet, modern dance, hip-hop, and flamenco.
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Seventy-five percent of the world's population now resides in cities.
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The remaining lots and fifty thousand nine hundred seventy-five acres (some of which land was already conditionally sold) he directed to be disposed of, together with his live stock, government bonds and shares held by him in the Potomac Company, the Dismal Swamp
George Washington: Farmer
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Within a week, he had visited a seventy-five-mile area and established missions in four tribal villages.
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To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.
The English Is Coming!
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I'll tell you: seventy-five hundred a year as a secretary at Ogilvie and Mather.
SORT OF RICH
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Time enough, if only a small miracle was granted them, to sail and row across the strait — probably man-hauling some short ice portages — the seventy-five miles he estimated to the mouth of Back's River, there to rerig the battered boats for travel upriver.
The Terror
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Pretty good speakers, the étagère, everything, seventy-five bucks.
UNKNOWN MAN #89
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Initially these had been one hundred and seventy-five men and twenty-five horses laying claim to an empire of fourteen million.
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At seventy-five, Davidson did not seem remotely doddery.
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We have seen that the reward of his labour was only fifteen hundred and seventy-five pounds; and when the expence of amanuenses and paper, and other articles are deducted, his clear profit was very inconsiderable.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Clement founded seventy-five churches in his absence from Rome.
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I'll tell you: seventy-five hundred a year as a secretary at Ogilvie and Mather.
SORT OF RICH
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In return the prisoners each earned seventy-five cents in camp scrip to spend at the camp stores.
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I saved up and bought it at the local pawnshop for seventy-five bucks, a deal as far as I was concerned.
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Three weeks earlier, the supreme court trial courtroom known as Part 39 on the eleventh floor of the Criminal Courts Building had contained a pool of seventy-five prospective jurors, when Judge David Marvin Mason began the proceedings by asking Karp to give the venire, or jury pool, a brief description of the case and the main players in the real-life drama about to be played out in front of them.
Betrayed
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To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.
The English Is Coming!
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Historically, over the last seventy-five years, equities have yielded an annual average real return of 7 percent.
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The Joplins moved to Texarkana, Texas sometime after eighteen seventy-five and Scott grew up there.
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Seventy-five words absolute maximum per entry, but you may submit as many entries as you like.
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I want a boyfriend of about sixty-eight to seventy-five, with a thinning, but still fullish head of salt and pepper hair, plenty for a man his age.
My Old Guy Boyfriend
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Seventy-five percent of banks have female accounts in them," notes Nadia Ba'eshir, a Jedda-based management consultant who gives training classes for Saudi businesswomen.
The New Arab Woman
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HONGKONG (245,000) is a small island belonging to Great Britain situated in the mouth of the Canton River, seventy-five miles from the city of Canton.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
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After seventy-five years, less charitable readers might well judge him ready for retirement.
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The largest facility, at Kharagpur, lay some sixty miles west of Calcutta; the others were seventy-five to 105 miles from that eighteenth-century city.
Whirlwind
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With his wife and child, he had ridden seventy-five miles up the valley to meet the Mormon party near the head of Lemhi River.
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Seventy-five years ago, at a junction of the Great North of Scotland Railway known as Inveramsay, the local railwaymen used as their base a two-roomed shack.
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Seventy-five percent of the island's ancient forests have been logged.
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Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me’tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres.
The Land of Midian
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We're scheduled for a light flight schedule, about seventy-five percent of the usual cyclic ops.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Angus followed, managing a fair hit, also staying on the fairway, but about seventy-five yards short of the Mountie.
A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
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In sixty-one, any soldier with a dollar and seventy-five cents could have his aspect recorded in the form of ambrotype, tintype, calotype, or daguerreotype.
Cold Mountain
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Our manufacturers make and use more than two hundred and seventy-five different kinds of paper, including newsprint, boxboard, building papers, book papers and many kinds of specialty papers.
The School Book of Forestry
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Seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of steel, that's my guess," said the 42-year-old former lumberjack, who had been living almost full time on Barge 202, as authorities dubbed the rusting steel slab bobbing in a channel 82 miles east of Portland, Ore.
Living Alone on a Steel Barge Clearly Has a Downside
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Witness the Swedish academy's citation, which told us that the seventy-five-year-old playwright ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’.
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Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader who was born in eighteen seventy-five.
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One of the contributors to the earlier symposium, but conspicuous by her absence in the recent one, was Ursula K. Le Guin, who will be seventy-five years old this year.
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Seventy-five miles of this forbidding structure have already been built, with a total projected length of more than 200 miles.
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The return of events - a replay of the patterns of the past seventy-five years of capital market history - will happen only for the most part.
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It'll cost them the princely sum of seventy-five pounds.
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I shall die when I am between seventy-five and eighty, in all likelihood.
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The floor of 'the dome is an immense elevator, seventy-five feet in diameter, which carries the observer up and down to follow the eye end of the telescope.
Photographing the Sky
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Once, hearing that a Pima man was to be executed the next day, Kino made a perilous seventy-five-mile night ride to rescue him.
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Seventy-five thousand horsemen armed with long lances came crashing out of the woods.
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Will you please put one dollar and seventy-five cents in the coin slot?
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Seventy-five Panjabi-speaking pupils were assessed on their expression of the English modal auxiliaries can, could, may, and might.
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Seventy-five city policemen and Mississippi State Police officers armed with carbines, submachine guns, shotguns, service revolvers and some personal weapons, responded to the call.
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Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants.
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I am ashamed of this offer, folks, but nevertheless, I am offered seventy-five cents -- _seventy-five cents_, for this fine old instrument.
The Happy Venture
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Seventy-five percent of British Columbia's cut comes from the east side of the Coast Mountains, much of it from the Chilcotin, and 90 percent of that goes to the United States, half as wood chips for paper, half as two-by-fours.
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Seventy-five miles and 6.5 hours from the start and we are scarfing some hot food and sucking down cold beers, legs a bit sore but the soul quenched.
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But, Lord! when you point a girl out in the car and say, 'Well, ain't that girl got the most gorgeous head of hair you ever saw in your life?' and your wife says: 'Yes -- Jordan is selling them puffs six for a dollar seventy-five this winter,' she ain't intending to be snippety at all.
The Indiscreet Letter
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Seventy-five Panjabi-speaking pupils were assessed on their expression of the English modal auxiliaries can, could, may, and might.
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We were taken possession of by the _Gros Souris_, a Spanish zebec with a long eighteen-pounder and seventy-five men.
A Sailor of King George
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I can remember when general semi-skilled labor in the textile plant, what you call a semi-skilled mechanic, was making seventy-five cents a day.
Oral History Interview with James Pharis, July 24, 1977. Interview H-0038. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Seventy-five of the workers, most of them Indo-Canadian immigrants, were ordered to repay EI benefits after the Canada Revenue Agency CRA_determined they had submitted inadequate records of employment.
2009 January 24 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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The average granulator will turn out about five hundred pounds of "steel-cut" coffee in an hour; the pulverizer, from seventy-five to two hundred pounds; and the average grinding mill from five hundred to six hundred pounds.
All About Coffee
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I was not ready for seventy-five; I hope to be readier for eighty.
Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
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Death and Dishonour A seventy-five year old lady was refused admission to four hospitals after suffering a heart attack recently.
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Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent.
Happy text
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Why, there were seventy-five hotels in that one spot alone, and all jam full.
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Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Mounce gives the figure of approximately seventy-five percent of the middle forms in the NT should be classified as deponent.
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Seventy-five percent of the women reported significant improvement in premenstrual symptoms.
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Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants.
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Seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of steel, that's my guess," said the 42-year-old former lumberjack, who had been living almost full time on Barge 202, as authorities dubbed the rusting steel slab bobbing in a channel 82 miles east of Portland, Ore.
Living Alone on a Steel Barge Clearly Has a Downside
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Available in twenty-five-, fifty-, seventy-five-, and hundred-foot lengths, these tapes had a black zinc die-cast case with a white blade.
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That was why the guilty cohorts had been arranged in ten well-spaced rows, seventy-five well-spaced decuries to the row.
Fortune's Favorites
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It'll cost them the princely sum of seventy-five pounds.
