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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber seventy-one , describing a person or thing in position number 71 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
seventy-one equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it.
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In its two hundred and seventy-first year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences could not have awarded a more timely prize.
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My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it.
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This is the seventy-first anniversary of F.Scott Fitzgerald's death he died, naturally, while reading the Princeton Alumni Weekly and eating chocolate.
HUFFPOST HILL - A Very Mark Foley Christmas Eliot Nelson 2011
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Morris died the following spring, in his seventy-first year.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The Summoning of Spirits Too Far From Home – Fantasy Magazine presents a Halloween bonus story: In the seventy-first hour of the Patchwork Dance, Javraâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢s sweat wept tiny rivers into the earth.
Planet-x.com.au » The Summoning of Spirits Too Far From Home – Science Fiction 2008
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One man\'s macabre relic is another man\'s Barry Bonds seventy-first home-run ball.
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But Snead and Nicklaus were both forty-two when they won their seventy-first tournaments, nine years older than Woods.
Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010
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One man's macabre relic is another man's Barry Bonds seventy-first home-run ball.
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Morris died the following spring, in his seventy-first year.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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