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

In places like Papua New Guinea and Australia, there is evidence of settlements at least forty-five thousand years old.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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

Nixon got on the phone to an Air Force meteorologist and was told there’d likely be a clearing between four thirty and four forty-five.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin