forty-five

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By the time the plot arrives at the point where it gets to be an actual story, instead of a forty-five minute flashback sequence, the credits start rolling.

From Salon

Thus, state and local government employment basically kept up with forty-five percent population growth over those years, while federal employment barely grew at all.

From Salon

A bus crash has killed forty-five people in South Africa's north-eastern Limpopo province.

From BBC

Security forces say they broke up 764 criminal groups, seized 5,300 firearms and arrested 39,000 people nationally in the first half of the year, while forty-five alleged criminals were killed by police.

From Reuters

Yes, you read that right: forty-five different health problems all exacerbated by or correlated with eating that sweet white powder.

From Salon