forty-five
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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 ● Jan. 1, 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
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
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 ● Feb. 20, 2023
The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
