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- noun Plural form of
nineteen .
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Examples
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Mine awld stripeh kitteh Tai she wents cros teh Bridge in start march an i has a sad hoal in me wivowt me kuddlekitteh 4 nineteens yaers.
oh hai… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The elderly group, of sixty-five and over, increased by about three hundred thousand in the nineteen-fifties and again in the nineteen-sixties; but there will be one and a half times this increase in the nineteens-eventies -- four hundred and fifty thousand.
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The house too was all rectangles, an oversized version of the small identical-development-houses of the nineteens.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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The house too was all rectangles, an oversized version of the small identical-development-houses of the nineteens.
A Gift From Earth Niven, Larry 1968
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Well, boys, when you get out of the nineteens, you will begin to learn something.
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These ten-nineteens are the most powerful transmitting tubes known when we left Tellus, but even their fields, dense as they are, can't hold an ultra-beam together much farther than about six astronomical units.
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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There were six nineteens in 115, but there are only five twenties; only 5 candidates can obtain as many as 20 votes.
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Now, it's back down in the Red Shoe Diaries, Porky's III, Girl's Gone Wild two-nineteens.
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I'd give my left leg to the knee joint for one of those big water-cooled, sixty-kilowatt ten-nineteens right now -- it would save us a lot of grief. "
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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There goes my whole secondary bank -- eight perfectly good ten-nineteens all shot to .... "
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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