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 • Apr. 10, 2025
"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
In places like Papua New Guinea and Australia, there is evidence of settlements at least forty-five thousand years old.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
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
That was the worst forty-five minutes of our lives, sitting in silence and regret.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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