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How To Use twenty-three In A Sentence

• The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
• While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
• Twenty-three financial institutions, primary dealers, took part in the auction on October 25.
• He was very young, not more than twenty-three or four, as indeed one could see at a glance.
• The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
• In March 1868 he was articled to Samuel Way and at the age of twenty-three admitted to practice law at the South Australian Bar.
• As before, the recording quality is as lo-fi as it gets, and each one of the twenty-three tracks features Lou on his guitar with only an occasional assist on backing vocals or music.
• Twenty-three per cent of chefs and cooks said that they were satisfied in their jobs.
• Prospector George Tannihill christened it in 1866 as a mining district, saying he chose the name to commemorate the fierce battle he and twenty-three settlers led by a Captain Pierson had heroically won against marauding Indians there in 1857. The Fiddler in the Subway
• Over a period of eighteen months, there were twenty-three days of university lectures and five assignments completed off-campus.