forty-five
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He describes “Pepperpot City” as “an impressionistic journey . . . condensing my more than forty-five years of exploring Philadelphia’s encyclopedic culinary history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones," Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
And Hentoff got The New Yorker to devote a whole forty-five pages of print to Marie, and later Hentoff expanded those pages into a full biography.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
We'd have to wait for the top of the hour, a full forty-five minutes away, to learn anything more.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
Our conversations eventually branched out, until it was the three of us talking about anything and everything for forty-five minutes at ten o’clock every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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