forty-five

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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

In an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.

From New York Times

We'd have to wait for the top of the hour, a full forty-five minutes away, to learn anything more.

From Salon

In a Fox News survey last month, forty-five percent of registered voters approved of Harris’s performance as vice president and 53 percent disapproved.

From Washington Post