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forty-six

card. The cardinal number immediately following forty-five and preceding forty-seven.

WordNet
forty-six

adj. being six more than forty [syn: 46, xlvi]

Usage examples of "forty-six".

It is true that our exports of wheat and Indian corn rose in the three years following the enactment of the Morrill tariff, from an average of eight million bushels to an average of forty-six million bushels, but this is contrary to the theory that high tariffs tend to keep breadstuffs at home, and low ones to send them abroad.

Chapter Forty-six Never before had Cera celebrated the rites of spring with such happy abandon.

A violent contest ensued, in the course of which the house divided, and of fifty-seven peers who voted for the delay, forty-six were such as enjoyed preferment in the church, commissions in the army, or civil employments under the government.

Australia, belong to this family of the myrtaceae, which contains forty-six genera and thirteen hundred species!

With a drug half-life of three to four hours, that would correspond to a blood level of forty-six nanograms in the first hour.

Olan Randle Robison, male white, age forty-six, was executed for murdering a couple after he broke into their rural home in 1980.

Elvert records a case of late pregnancy, and Henschel one of forty-six weeks, but the fetus was dead.

Rocking slowly in his big leather desk chair, Norman Singletary studied the young man who was staring morosely out the window at blue sky and clouds from forty-six stories up.

On the opposite bank of the river were the dwellings of the Utman Khels, and in an area seven miles by three, I counted forty-six separate castles, complete with moats, towers and turrets.

Chekov and Glak Son, we have aboot forty-six hours, before the nova bomb hits.

We have forty-six chromosomes, but some ferns have more than six hundred.

Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs.

Major Theodore Dobbins, age forty-six, dishonorably discharged for embezzlement, served three terms for fraud in England, one for robbery in Australia.

The intercepts were then forwarded to Arlington Hall, headquarters of the Army codebreakers, over forty-six special secure teletype lines.

Eika fleet sailed out of Rikin Sound before a fair wind, two hundred and twenty-three longships and forty-six knarrs, the big-bellied cargo ships that plied the northern seas.