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  • El caso es que me traje unos libros (de los muchos que todavía me quedan por traer a casa) y, en uno, encontré un señalador de la Feria del Libro, la vigésimo cuarta (no escribí "24. °" para que no leyeran "veinticuatro").

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • Menace lurked on branches in the form of inch-long bullet ants, called "veinticuatro" since the intense pain from their sting lasts 24 hours.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Menace lurked on branches in the form of inch-long bullet ants, called "veinticuatro" since the intense pain from their sting lasts 24 hours.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Menace lurked on branches in the form of inch-long bullet ants, called "veinticuatro" since the intense pain from their sting lasts 24 hours.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • Desde su fundación en 1963, el Constitucional ha ilegalizado veinticuatro partidos, entre ellos seis formaciones kurdas.

    Turkey: DTP party ban triggers mass protests over Turkish Kurdistan 2010

  • In a part of the world where people's physical traits are often the basis for nicknames - even unflattering ones like "fatty" or "shorty" - "veinticuatro" "twenty-four" in English is not an insult but rather a term of endearment, and Hernandez, now 37, said his uniqueness has made him a popular guy.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By FERNANDO GONZALEZ 2011

  • (p104) -- Conozco el punto fijo, y no tardaría veinticuatro horas en desenterrar tanta riqueza como allí duerme a la sombra ....

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • Cristóbal and Miguel, each of whom had been _veinticuatro_ of Granada at some date previous to April 15, 1572. [

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Luis de Leon renounced most of his share of the paternal estate, [16] and gave it up to one ” or both ” of his younger brothers Cristobal and Miguel, each of whom had been veinticuatro of Granada at some date previous to April 15, 1572. [

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

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