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ninety-eight

card. The cardinal number immediately following ninety-seven — ninety plus eight — and preceding ninety-nine.

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ninety-eight

adj. being eight more than ninety [syn: 98, xcviii]

Usage examples of "ninety-eight".

Mexi- cans, ninety-eight Papago Indians and six Anglos snuck into a camp of Arivaipa Apaches before dawn.

There were ninety-eight Klingon nationals on the Chut who died because of your incompetence!

Ninety-eight percent genetic congruence, only five million years since the last common ancestor, which… Yes.

There is a band of absconders, United Irishmen, hard men, living between there and Newcastle, and some of them think you may have changed sides since ninety-eight.

He said that a red cell count on a boy Danny's age should run anywhere from eighty-five to ninety-eight per cent.

Ninety-eight percent, he guessed, would be about the point where a law of diminishing returns set in and the Implacable equations of relativity demanded the expenditure of impossible amounts of energy to attain infinitesimal increments of velocity.

Ninety-eight percent, he guessed, would be about the point where a law of diminishing returns set in and the implacable equations of relativity demanded the expenditure of impossible amounts of energy to attain infinitesimal increments of velocity.

The other nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight ordinary fully paid up five-shilling shares were held by the Ladyburg Farmers Bank.

There's this chemical in Super Glue sticks to the water in a print, see, and about ninety-eight percent of a print is water.

Here, a scientist who is somewhat ignorant in the ways of the world invents a combined light source and sun-powered energy source with an efficiency of ninety-eight percent that promises to wreak havoc with the power monopoly.

Once again, I’d say ninety-eight or even ninety-nine morks out of a hundred would have responded to a question like that by shouting ‘Get lost!

Once again, I'd say ninety-eight or even ninety-nine morks out of a hundred would have responded to a question like that by shouting 'Get lost!

In any case: Ninety-eight percent iron, one-point-one percent noble metals, zero-point-two percent of molybdenum, zero-point….

D6nges survived the first ballot in which 'Blackie' Swart, the Free State's candidate, was eliminated, but on the second ballot, a straight contest between Verwoerd and D6nges, the northerners closed their ranks and swept Verwoerd into the premiership by ninety-eight votes to seventy-five.

A dusty sign in front of the Sinclair station advertised its regular gasoline, six gallons for ninety-eight cents, tax paid.