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seventy-one

num. The cardinal number immediately following seventy and preceding seventy-two.

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seventy-one

adj. being one more than seventy [syn: 71, lxxi]

Usage examples of "seventy-one".

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.

The grants for the year amounted to something less than four millions, and the provisions made for this expense exceeded it in the sum of two hundred and seventy-one thousand and twenty-four pounds, ten shillings and sixpence halfpenny.

Kallet went on to indict the purveyors of ground meat for their rampant use of preservative chemicals, such as sodium sulfite, citing a study that found sulfite in seventy-one of the seventy-six hamburgers sampled.

Early in the war, a mortar round had landed in a square in Tuzla and killed seventy-one people, most of them children.

Again, he showed his athletic prowess by throwing strikeouts that registered seventy-one miles an hour.

When the Legislature of 1860-'61 met at Gaston, we estimated that we might count upon fifty-three out of the seventy-one Republican Senators and Assemblymen, and on thirty-four out of the sixty-five Democrats.

Even assuming they did have the later compensators and went to maximum military power with a zero safety margin, if Hexapuma turned on them this instant and went to her own max deceleration, they would meet in seventy-one minutes.

Of these, three were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consulars, five by correctors, and seventy-one by presidents.

Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seemed to have no purpose at all.

A man, seventy-one, the retired vice president of a meat-packing firm, the victim of congestive heart failure.

In the electoral college Adams was elected president with seventy-one votes.

Seventy-one of his epigrams, some lively, are collected in Brunck, (Analect.

Seventy-one, their lives worn out with working, and he judged that he had been correct in citing them as epitomes of the black problem.

They've got the granddaddies of all dust storms, cover the whole damned planet, like that one back in November of seventy-one.

The Phaeacia resembled a giant guitar pick -- a reflective ellipsoid seventy-one meters long, thirty-three wide, and somewhat thicker aft than foreward.