Words similar to seventeen

Example sentences for: seventeen

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Thus, the retail replenishment system would check the stock of these jeans every Sunday night; if the current stock is thirteen pairs of size-8 jeans (meaning that four pair sold the previous week), then it would automatically order four more pairs, bringing the amount of this SKU up to its target level of seventeen units.
The Oregon state agency responsible for housing enforcement inspects labor camps once every seventeen years.
Ingalls writes: "These big boys were sixteen or seventeen years old and they came to school only in the middle of the winter term.
The NYT delays until paragraph seventeen mention of rising unemployment and economic-based resentment of Chinese Indonesians.
How do they manage to do mental arithmetic with numbers such as quatre-vingtdix-sept four twenties plus seventeen and soixante-quinze sixty plus fifteen, which require mental agility just to translate them into the figures 97 and 75?