forty-five

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.

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.

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

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.

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