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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber ninety-seven , describing a person or thing in position number97 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
ninety-seven equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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She celebrates her ninety-seventh birthday today (December 25th, 2008)
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She celebrates her ninety-seventh birthday today (December 25th, 2008)
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I later found out that he had run up the stairs to our other offices, on the ninety-seventh floor, to warn the others.
Nikki Stone: A Story That I Guarantee Will Move You To Be Thankful Too 2009
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On the ninety-seventh anniversary of International Women's Day, American women and men should celebrate these global milestones but also seriously consider the possibility of sending a woman to the helm at home.
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We're just followers of the Church of God in Christ, and we're having its ninety-seventh annual convention here in Memphis, where it was founded.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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We're just followers of the Church of God in Christ, and we're having its ninety-seventh annual convention here in Memphis, where it was founded.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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Despite the fact that she was then in her ninety-seventh year, the court complimented her on her intelligence as a witness.
Profile: Angelica Zasta Gooselaw Trish Short Lewis 2006
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If it were so, the number of sides in a Circle would be a mere question of pedigree and arithmetic, and the four hundred and ninety-seventh descendant of an
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A quartet of them, soldiers of the ninety-seventh infantry regiment, sat at the foot of the cross and tossed up dice for the overcoat of the crucified.
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'You've got him,' said Harry, ignoring the rising panic in his chest, the dread he had been fighting since they had first entered the ninety-seventh row.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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