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How to use the word FIFTY in a Sentence? Page #2

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Sports brings the world together and it affords equal opportunities to all. That is what sports are about, fifty five years ago we learned that when we hosted it in Tokyo before.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is a way of expanding China's growing global presence and dominant economic force, and it progressively reorients the world from the U.S. and European-centric view of the last fifty years.

Tim Buckley

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Relationships sometimes break like a falling vase into fifty pieces. And when you glue the vase back together, you realize it has lost the luster and pristine appearance that will never return. Now you have two choices. Keep it as it is or throw it away.

RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

It is a fifty percent tax cut for U.S. Steel to stay in Gary, this deal is not going to make people move to the city. This is not going to cause a population growth and employment opportunities.

Michael Hicks

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One-hundred and fifty head of ponies control the purse strings of the entire island, we call it the 'Misty' mystique.

Denise Bowden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This person has been isolated and we are taking a highly precautionary approach to ensure that all contacts are traced, the fact that only one of the fifty contacts of the initial monkeypox-infected patient has been infected shows how poorly infectious the virus is.

Nick Phin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are four hundred and fifty films written by Black screenwriters/filmmakers every year. Sadly, of these, only three will ever see the light of day.

Joseph Strickland

added by anonymous
5 years ago

I just want to relate the message of one of these women -- and it was a shared sentiment among this group -- that this was not role-playing, that this was not' Fifty Shades of Grey.' It wasn't in a gray area at all.

Ronan Farrow

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A lot of people are not aware of how much zoos have evolved over the last forty to fifty, sixty — one hundred years, modern zoos in the 21st century not only take care of animals and exhibit them to the public — we work to save species.

Jim Breheny

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There are about fifty-six incidences of the phrase 'one another' in the New Testament in relation to members being in the body. The term means that believers should not only wait for someone to help them, to do something for them, but that each believer has the responsibility to help and do something for another. This is the mutual giving and receiving in the body. This is the body life, where each and every member functions in the body...Without every member of the body functioning, the body will be crippled or handicapped. No matter how little or how much, every believer needs to do their part to support and supply other members in the body.

Henry Hon

added by Steve Simms
6 years ago

Fifty percent of Americans have either diabetes or prediabetes by age 65 now.

Roxanne Sukol

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Two-thirds of us are overweight or obese, fifty percent of Americans have either diabetes or prediabetes by age 65 now.

Roxanne Sukol

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There are now more than fifty families worldwide that are connecting with local Makers to get a grid made for their kids too.

Rebecca Fuhrman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, ‘ Well, they’re busing people in. ’ … We’ve been busing people in to deal with you f ----- ‘ a ------- for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now, we’re just going to find a different way to do it.

Scott Foval

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, ‘Well, they’re busing people in.’ … We’ve been busing people in to deal with you f-----‘ a------- for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now, we’re just going to find a different way to do it.

Scott Foval

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Fifty years ago I knew the names of everyone who lived in my street. Now, in this age of information, I know the names of hardly anybody who lives in my street.

Clifford Stoll

added by anonymous
7 years ago

The most harrowing moments were when we first arrived on scene, dealing with these forest fires growing on you, flames jumping fifty feet in the air, we were yelling at guys to get out of there because the thing was growing so fast. I’ve never seen a fire grow that fast in my life.

Aron Harper

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Republicans have experienced the biggest ideological earthquake of a major party in our lifetime. Fifty, 60 years of conservatism has now yielded to a leader who is not a conservative, but who is a populist. That’s a big deal. And I think what the Ryan statement is… if the party is now going to be split between the leader, the populist, and the old-line conservatives… he wants to establish a center of power and a kind of home for the conservative wing.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Fifty percent of brain function, or more, is exhibited through eyes, movement and vision.

Dennis Cardone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Peace reigns in this hemisphere, these are two countries who have confronted each other for fifty something years, and on this occasion the visit of the U.S. president to Cuba is reason for happiness and rejoicing.

Jorge Felix

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These are two countries who have confronted each other for fifty something years, and on this occasion the visit of the U.S. president to Cuba is reason for happiness and rejoicing, we are going to give him a box of Habanos.

Jorge Felix

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fifty percent of annual profit is generated on St. Valentine's Day. With a good exchange rate (dollars), we are hoping to have a very good year.

Alvaro Camacho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fifty years have elapsed.

Ellen Freese of Maine

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fifty per cent of men after a vasectomy reversal remain infertile.

Ilpo Huhtaniemi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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