forty-five

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"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 brochure claimed that "King Corn and King Cotton grow side by side, yielding in excess of forty-five bushels of corn and a bale of cotton per acre."

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2021

Mark Taimanov was his first opponent, a powerful competitor who, at forty-five, was playing some of the best chess of his life, and who’d played exceedingly well at Palma.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady