twenty-eight

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  1. Eight more than twenty.
  2. The Australian yellow-collared parrakeet, Platycercus semitorquatus: so named from its note, which is sometimes repeated several times in succession.

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  • The general election ended in a near draw, with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima Party in first place with twenty-eight seats and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a close second with twenty-seven seats. —  Democracy Now!
  • On August 3, 1965, just before the end of the council, at the age of twenty-eight, I was received into the Roman Catholic Church in St. Patrick's, Soho Square. —  Commonweal Magazine
  • The game will feature over twenty-eight plants to choose from, giving players the opportunity to cultivate their virtual garden with a host of mini-games focusing on activities such as digging soil, planting seeds and harvesting crops of fruit and vegetables. —  Latest from PALGN
  • At the age of twenty-eight, Derek set up his own company hiring out mobile cranes to construction sites and moving heavy machinery for engineering firms. —  The British National Party
  • When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. —  DrWeb's Domain
 

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