fifty
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"We had worked together for over fifty years and she was a beautiful person inside and out."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
To investigate this connection, the team studied a large multicenter group consisting of fifty patients and one hundred brain hemispheres.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Around fifty miners have already taken part, and all of them have received job offers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Two hundred fifty years ago, the Founders expressed the aspirations of the American people in imperishable language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
I still had more than a mile of walking ahead of me, carrying what might very well be fifty thousand dollars.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Until recently, she says, most of her patients were in their fifties.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
"We stayed to guard our soil," her daughter Najat al-Nour, a Quran professor in her fifties who lifted her chin high to admonish those who left.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The two men are very different: McSweeney, a political operative to his fingertips, steeped in Labour politics for decades; Starmer, the man who arrived in Westminster in his fifties and travels light ideologically.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Jacob Bethell and Harry Brook scored quick fifties but Nepal took regular wickets as England made 184-7 on Sunday in their opening Group C match of the T20 World Cup in Mumbai.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
Nearly in his fifties, Madson was in Reggie’s church ward and had been an assistant to Van Park on Reggie’s own varsity high school teams.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
