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

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

“Thirty.eight, thirty-nine, blackberry, huckleberry, forty-five, strawberry, thirty-two, raspberry . . .” So it is very likely that he took fewer than fifty steps, or perhaps many more.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el