On this planet, that's some fifty-odd generations. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
It's only been around for for fifty-odd years after all. From Wordnik.com. [Islam yet again...] Reference
Plus, every time she smiles, I feel like I see like fifty-odd teeth. From Wordnik.com. [rigatoni with eggplant puree | smitten kitchen] Reference
I've had fifty-odd identity cards in my time, all with phony birth dates. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Rabbi's fifty-odd pupils were daily instructed in their important studies. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Iran was holding fifty-odd kidnapped ambassadors and getting away with it. From Wordnik.com. [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference
Now he had seven ships with Shanghainese crews against fifty-odd Cantonese. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
In fifty-odd years among thousands of songs, only nineteen instrumentals have hit #1. From Wordnik.com. [Telstar] Reference
Take ourselves; we belong to a pretty big family, about fifty-odd genera of primates. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
They drove the fifty-odd kilometres to Amsterdam along the motorway, going very fast. From Wordnik.com. [Not Once But Twice]
Some fifty-odd years ago, Lake Charmaine had been the site of a rich-kids summer camp. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
Some fifty-odd years ago, Eake Charmaine had been the sight of a rich-kids summer camp. From Wordnik.com. [Tell No One]
But first I have to find fifty-odd jobs so the government doesn't make me give them a grand. From Wordnik.com. [phluid61 Diary Entry] Reference
They did not understand that fifty-odd Asha'man were as big a hammer as anyone could wish for. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Marriage certainly has been made a mockery of, over the last fifty-odd years, by heterosexuals. From Wordnik.com. [Lighter than Light Blogging] Reference
This weekend I helped to test and graduate fifty-odd Kenpo black belts from all over the Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Up the Mountain] Reference
Together, we questioned fifty-odd people, mostly men, about their association with Elizabeth Short. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
No one ever contacted me again about the toys or followed up on the fifty-odd reviews I never submitted. From Wordnik.com. [21 DOG YEARS] Reference
During the day, the fifty-odd surfers at Scorpion split up between Second and Third Point, roughly 30/20. From Wordnik.com. [Kook] Reference
Applause, and Anna walked to the lectern feeling fifty-odd pairs of eyes focused on her own massive hams. From Wordnik.com. [Babylon Nights] Reference
It needed to be, for it held a round dozen of dragons as well as fifty-odd men and a sprinkling of women. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
Just that at the end of a fifty-odd hour workweek, I rarely have the oomph to create culinary cornucopias. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » on the home front] Reference
One of these is his his clear-eyed account of the death of Howard Auster, his companion for fifty-odd years. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Vidal] Reference
The Voice scarcely concerned itself with the fifty-odd millions of the population who had never heard of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
He is beginning to change now, at fifty-odd, and is becoming more interested in people and other activities. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with George Watts Hill, January 30, 1986. Interview C-0047. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Still, it had been her decision to drive the fifty-odd miles to Charles County, to see this moment firsthand. From Wordnik.com. [Every Secret Thing]
Three weeks into "fifty fewer" I could not bear to send fifty-odd pieces of "stuff" into other peoples' homes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
For half an hour, McCain reminisced to the press corps and fifty-odd Annapolis alums at an invitation-only event. From Wordnik.com. [Kelly Nuxoll: McCain's "Service to America" Tour Gets Off To Sputtering Start] Reference
I met him when I was just a novice, fifty-odd years ago, and I'd swear he looked just as old then as he does now. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
He saw a lustrous cheong-sam, a headband patterned on the DNA molecule, and hardly a trace of her fifty-odd years. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The final count is a little off, since fifty-odd novels issued in various sets have been magically compressed to, um, three. From Wordnik.com. [Success!] Reference
I don 't have hard numbers, but in 2005 there were fifty-odd documentary offerings; this year that number has almost doubled. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Orange: Re-inventing the Real: Documentary and Politics at TFF] Reference
At that moment, Schofield brought the rear loading ramp back up, closing it, trapping the fifty-odd apes that had gone inside. From Wordnik.com. [Hell Island] Reference
Palma, who was crouched beside the camp guard he'd just stungunned, was squinting through the underbrush at the fifty-odd tentpods. From Wordnik.com. [Galaxy Jane]
Baseline: fifty-odd years ago astrology was commonly regarded as a ridiculous former supersition, one all but a tiny minority had outgrown. From Wordnik.com. [2005 July] Reference
'Twasn't so when I was a girl, fifty-odd years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Despatch] Reference
Its fifty-odd years of existence, as well as its day, are over. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways of Men] Reference
They had lived within a mile of each other for fifty-odd years, old. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Peace 1908] Reference
What had he to show, after all, for these fifty-odd years of life granted to him?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
What it means is I now have some fifty-odd years of cricket history to catch up on. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
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