How To Use Twenty-six In A Sentence
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He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc.
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Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
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Twenty-six vehicles believed to have been stolen were recovered.
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Twenty-six of these letters contained comments of the kind we presume Makhanya identified as amounting to "attacks on people who irked the President in one way or another", whatever this means.
ANC Today
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Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems.
Archive 2009-12-01
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As I understand it, the unabbreviated procedure takes about twenty-six weeks.
Sagittarius Whorl
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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Of the thirty-three Hanukkah cards, twenty-six, or 79 percent, feature a Star of David or Menorah.
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Boats drawing from nineteen to twenty-six inches water can almost at all seasons ply on the Upper Ohio, and during the periods that the large boats are detained below the Falls, they are constantly employed in transporting produce, intended for the markets on the Mississippi, to Louisville, from whence it is drayed round to Shippingsport and re-shipped.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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It has a lot of ground to cover in twenty-six measly episodes.
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To try to rebuild a life when you are twenty-six years old.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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As the author of twenty-six books, most of them biographies, I've developed a kind of motto: "The biographer is obliged to tell the truth -- even when it means saying something good about someone.
Donald Spoto: Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News
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The following is the report of a case by Drewry, of double (or, more strictly speaking, quadruple) athetosis, associated with epilepsy and insanity: ` ` The patient was a negro woman, twenty-six years old when she was admitted into this, the Central State (Va.)
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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This year 113 competitors represented twenty-six countries.
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This is preaching -- but remember how the sermon is written at three, four, and five o'clock by an octogenary pen -- a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old: and as H.L.P. feels it to be, -- ALL
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
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But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
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Twenty-six-year-old Cyrille Aimée, with a voice like fine whiskey -- oaky and smooth, with a hint of smokiness -- offered a languid "Ce soir," caressing the French words, and an aggressive "Summertime," both trailing long strands of vocal roulades.
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocalist Competition 2010 at Kennedy Center
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It contains thirty-two poems, of which twenty-six are in hexameters, the standard metre for post-classical Greek encomiastic poetry.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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In 1847 there were 6,700,000 of us in Eire's Twenty-Six Counties with 4,000,000 sheep and cattle and 3,129,000 acres of tillage.
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She was twenty-six weeks pregnant when her waters broke on Friday, December 7.
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Hamby writes: These poems are from a twenty-six-poem sequence of abecedarian sonnets at the center of All-Night Lingo Tango.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a considerable reduction in sugar intake.
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Twenty-six dioceses each had a consistory court with defamation cases providing about one quarter of their business.
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At the next stage - abstract letter detection - all twenty-six letters of the alphabet are represented by individual letter detectors.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.
Obama issues proclamation in Kennedy's honor
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Twenty-six linkage groups were identified and synteny of duplicated microsatellite markers was used to confirm 13 homeologous chromosome pairs.
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Twenty-six men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer were randomly assigned to receive a tomato oleoresin extract containing 30 mg of lycopene or no supplementation for 3 weeks before radical prostatectomy.
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If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty.
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The standard galley or galere ordinaire, had twenty-six banks of oars per side, with five men at each oar.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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Twenty-six names, on two sheets of Downing Street notepaper: a more eloquent and concise statement of the Prime Minister's standing than any number of opinion polls and election results could ever provide.
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Twenty-six or - seven -- you're over twenty-five right now, I'll bet you on it, shillings to ha'pennies, and you'll make thirty when you get your full weight," Dag Daughtry told him.
CHAPTER 1
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My whole shtick is putting twenty-six letters, ten numbers, and twenty-odd punctuation marks in an order that makes people cringe and guffaw and wet themselves and hide under the bed.
A Man in Trouble
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Dr. Manette goes to tend to the sister; she continues her unceasing cry for the next twenty-six hours.
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Now, at twenty-six, I was chapped and thoroughly sweated from the care of four children and the day-in day-out labor of the place.
Excerpt: The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton
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Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations.
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An announcement over the loudspeaker moments earlier had warned sailors to stand clear of the twenty-six-foot motor whaleboat suspended on a davit about ten feet above the starboard deck.
The Attack on the Liberty
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-- “It hath beene of later experience found also to be effectual against the falling sicknesse, that divers have been cured thereby; for after the taking of the _Decoct.manipulor. ii.c. polypod.quercin. contus. ℥ iv. in cerevisia_, they that have been troubled with it twenty-six years, and have fallen once in a weeke, or two or three times in a moneth, have not fallen once in fourteen or fifteen moneths, that is until the writing hereof.”
An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases
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He really believes that he can receive messages from the dead through this very simple contraption: a cardboard chart of all twenty-six letters in the Latin alphabet and all the numbers zero through nine, with a plastic heart-shaped doodad known as a planchette that has three stubby legs and a tiny window of sorts in the middle.
Learning to Die in Miami
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Idly running her tongue across the fraenulum, she thinks about work, and how many others in her office of twenty-six people do this.
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This is borne out by scarabs dating from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, which suggest that he was still worshipped some 2,000 years after his death.
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Eleven months after receiving an invitation to address this topic for a Lutheran convocation of teaching theologians, my wife of twenty-six years was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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The majority of the 231 birching orders were in cities, not towns: seventy in Edinburgh, sixty-nine in Glasgow, and twenty-six in Aberdeen.
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These original communities were called cantons, and today Switzerland's twenty-six provinces are called by the same name.
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These were the twenty-sixth pair of censors since the first, the lustrum was the nineteenth.
The History of Rome, Vol. II
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Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations.
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The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty.
Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
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Jenny's twenty-sixth birthday was rolling round and she was becoming bored - very bored.
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Therefore after six months the dieter is behaving according to all twenty-six goals and she has achieved a considerable reduction in sugar intake.
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The two Brians work twenty-six acres of withies segregated into lesser beds of three or four acres.
Wildwood
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Of thirty circles known near Aberdeen twenty-six still possess the 'recumbent' stone, and in others it may originally have existed.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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Psammetichus established his capital in Sais in the western delta thus the name Saite as an alternative for the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
The Bible Unearthed
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Twenty-six percent of very liberal Americans say that their congregation organizes marches and demonstrations, compared to 16 percent of those who are very conservative.
American Grace
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Twenty-six per cent experienced a reduction in catarrh and 15 per cent reported an improvement in eczema.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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TWENTY-SIX Negotiations One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Of the twenty-six cantons, twenty-two are officially monolingual.
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In testimony whereof, the said Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and warriors of the said Potawatamie tribe have hereunto set their hands, at the Wabash, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution
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He retired in 1809 after twenty-six years in the diplomatic service.
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Larry defended his title twenty consecutive times (all-in-all, fighting a total of twenty-six title bouts throughout his career) and held the record for forty-eight straight wins, next to boxing legend Rocky Marciano.
PA-SEN: National GOP Not Opening Wallet For Santorum's Reelection
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I'm twenty-six now, living off ramen noodles and canned chili.
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Most pilots were aged between nineteen and twenty-six.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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After, on average, more than twenty-six years, ninety-four per cent of the would-be suicides were either still alive or had died of natural causes.
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In one of his more famous episodes, Beaubien participated in the raid that captured Daniel Boone and twenty-six of his men.
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For a mission to Mars, such launch windows are available every twenty-six months, for only a couple months at a time.
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A TABLE showing the mean fall of rain, in inches, for each month, in this city, computed from a series of twenty-six years.
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
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Charleston doubled to right and came home when Gibson, his muscles limbered from tossing Diz like a rag doll, tagged a tape-measure home run, this one soaring over the same left-field wall that Pirate Bill Mazeroski would make famous twenty-six years later.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
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Some years ago — the fifth year of the siege, actually — there was a scholic from the Twenty-sixth Century, a chubby, irreverent Asian with the unusual name of Bruster Lin — and even though Bruster Lin was the brightest and most insightful scholar amongst us, his irreverence was his undoing.
Ilium
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Whereas before he had counted twenty-six followers behind the armoured barbarian, now he saw only twelve.
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The fact that the person who committed the outrage was abroad on that day was deponed to by twenty-six witnesses.
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Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
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The twenty-six sections of Abish's story are each titled with three headwords, grouped in alphabetized sets.
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Twenty-six landscape construction projects were selected and categorized under the headings of landforms, pavement, site structures, or water.
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It came on the twenty-sixth of June and was called Pelagius in the calendar.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete
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Of the twenty-six books that were excerpted or reproduced in the New Yorker in 1996, over half hailed from Random House.
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All this produces a very pleasing, rich, and beautiful effect; and there was an account of the method in the twenty-sixth chapter, dealing with sgraffiti, in the
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
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The July 7, 2004 article, ���July Surprise���, said a Pakistani official was told by a White House aid ���that it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July. '-- the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Jason Leopold: Don���t Believe the Hype; Terrorist Warnings Just Another Way White House Tries to Change Public Opinion
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Twenty-six or - seven -- you're over twenty-five right now, I'll bet you on it, shillings to ha'pennies, and you'll make thirty when you get your full weight," Dag Daughtry told him.
CHAPTER 1
