Wiktionary
card. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-eight and preceding eighty.
WordNet
adj. being nine more than seventy [syn: 79, ilxxx]
Wikipedia
Seventy-Nine (released as The Asylum in the United Kingdom) is an American science-fiction film written and directed by Filip Maciejewicz.
The film had its Los Angeles premiere on September 7, 2013. The film later opened the LaSciFi Film Festival on April 26, 2014, winning an accolade for 'Best Directing'. The film is set to be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2016.
Usage examples of "seventy-nine".
Again and for the fourth time the Boston aggregation carried off the honors, with a record unsurpassed up to that time, as out of seventy-nine games played they won seventy-one and lost but eight, while the Athletics, who finished in the second place, played seventy-three games in all, losing twenty and winning fifty-three.
As long as Tony had kept pigeons, which was for almost all of his seventy-nine years, he had never been late to feed them, and they began complaining the moment he opened the screen door.
The reward of this wearisome winter campaign was two hundred weight of deer-suet and four hundred and seventy-nine bushels of corn for the general store.
One season in the big leagues he came to the plate seventy-nine times and failed to draw a single walk.
From the want of proper police and hygienic regulations alone it is not wonderful that from February 24 to September 21, 1864, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-nine deaths, nearly one-third the entire number of prisoners, should have been recorded.
I'm getting sprung, and by tonight I'll be putting on the feedbag with a swell doll down at Ration House Number Seventy-nine.
After seventy-nine years of operation, the last watch was stood at the naval listening post at Imperial Beach, California, near San Diego.
The array had lost seventy-nine horses and forty-two cattle to foot rot alone, and ninety-four soldiers to lung fever and dysentery, mostly from that first awful outbreak.
Another estimate by John Wheeler gives a value a mere seventy-nine orders of magnitude larger.
They brought in fifteen thousand lumber feet of Oregon pine to build Tenth City, and seventy-nine thousand feet of California redwood and they hammered together a clean, neat little town by the edge of the stone canals.
The next day Javier Solana instructed General Clark to suspend NATO’s air operations, the UN Security Council passed a resolution welcoming the end of the war, and I announced to the American people that, after seventy-nine days, the bombing campaign was over, the Serb forces were withdrawing, and the one million men, women, and children driven from their land would be able to go home.
Seventy-nine percent, with a standard deviation of less than three points.