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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following fifty-five and preceding fifty-seven.

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  • adjective being six more than fifty

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Examples

  • In response, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia with fifty-six delegates, representing every colony except Georgia.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Watermead Manor is not much more than sixty miles from London, but when the young man did the distance from his park gates to the Marble Arch in fifty-six minutes on his new Brusier-Grolier, a machine of the same make which, to the eternal glory of France, had won the Gordon-Bennett Cup that year, the bench of magistrates universally agreed that his lordship had not only gone too far, but too fast.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Settling into the seat, Tropp replied, “I stopped sleeping fifty-six years ago, a practice I never abandoned after my youngest child left home.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

  • In one study, Gottman and his colleagues recruited fifty-six married couples and asked them to talk about how satisfied they were with their marriages.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • “One point seventy-eight per second, one hundred and seven per minute, six thousand four hundred and eight per hour, nearly one hundred and fifty-four thousand per day, fifty-six—”

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • For the following fifty-six hours straight, the team called in airstrikes from all the bombers available in theater.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • "I should have had one hundred and fifty-six dollars when I left the poor-farm," the ancient one continued.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • The chopper hit the ground fifty-six minutes later.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • For the following fifty-six hours straight, the team called in airstrikes from all the bombers available in theater.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • She didn't have the opportunity to ask again until she was fifty-six.

    The Dummy's Guide to Marriage Proposals J.A. Pak 2011

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