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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following twenty-eight and preceding thirty.

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  • adjective being nine more than twenty
  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-eight and one

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Examples

  • According to the General Social Survey, people who had at least some college education remained a minority of the population aged eighteen to twenty-nine until the 1990s.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Her children are now ages twenty-nine, twenty-four and thirteen.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair

    "Born Again American" 2009

  • I literally turned off the router ports for twenty-eight or twenty-nine days a month.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • It was June of 2009, just ten months before a gas explosion in Massey's Upper Big Branch mine killed twenty-nine miners and showed the nation how Massey Coal plays the appeals game to evade enforcement on the company's thousands of safety violations.

    Anne Butterfield: AG for Reelection: Grandstanding and Carelessness for Colorado Anne Butterfield 2010

  • I think it took about three months the first time for me to wear size twenty-nine jeans.

    The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011

  • Reported attacks in Ingushetia rose from five in 2004 to 227 in 2008; those in Dagestan increased from twenty-nine to eighty-nine in the same period.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • I entered Stanford Business School twenty-nine years ago as a naive twenty-one year old, the youngest in my class.

    Chip Conley: The Top 10 Emotionally-Intelligent Fortune 500 CEOs Chip Conley 2011

  • He was twenty-nine years old and had graduated before all of them.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

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