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  • Dance Umbrella, LondonIf Cunningham's Nearly Ninety is the headline attraction at this year's Dance Umbrella, there's still a bracing range of work in the festival's closing week.

    This week's new dance Judith Mackrell 2010

  • Ninety is the per cent of Canada's net balance of trade that the forest products industry contributed last year.

    Canada's Forest Products Industry 1997

  • Xbox 360 title Ninety-Nine Nights is getting a sequel with the clever temp title I didn't want anything to do with the last Transformers game, partly because I'd heard it was

    Kotaku 2009

  • Memories of that great last morning when the thunders of hell called the Ninety-second to its last drive.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The next vampire book is called Ninety-Nine Coffins.

    13 BULLETS by David Wellington (Three Rivers 2007) 2007

  • A biologist and geologist, Siple wrote a book, published in 1959, called Ninety Degrees South.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • 'So we did a re-think, went outside, called another taxi, and set off to The Naughty Ninety, which is about the only noisy big dine, dance and cabaret place in Melbourne.'

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • Memories of that great last morning when the thunders of hell called the Ninety-second to its last drive.

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • Her long-boat was equipped and despatched on 27th February to Sydney, but the boat filled and went to pieces at a spot called Ninety Mile beach.

    The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904

  • On the west side, which was one of the short sides, it faced what I will call the Ninety-ninth Avenue, and on the south side, what I will call Fernando Street, though really it was one of the cross-streets with numbers.

    The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

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