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n. (context sports English) The round before the quarterfinal.
Usage examples of "last sixteen".
In reply to this argument it will perhaps be said that the negro has no slavery now to contend with, and that having been free during the last sixteen years, he ought by this time to have contradicted the degrading qualities which slavery formerly ascribed to him.
The last sixteen thousand men within the walls who were able to fight took the sacrament, vowing to storm the enemy camps on both sides of the city, while General Ferrucci struck from the west.
In the last sixteen months, that has happened a total of eighteen times.
Everything that I have done for the last sixteen-and-then-some years has been to give John the skills to be the leader he needs to be.
Alton ignored the comment, as he had with so many others he had accepted from the apprenticing Hunett over the last sixteen years.