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Example sentences for: sixteen

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At eight or ten stitches an inch, it is possible to seam thirteen to sixteen or more inches a second.
Sixteen unique sequences were obtained that contain a myosin motor domain as identified by the SMART (Smart Modular Architecture Research Tool) program [ 56].
In Melbourne, the Victorian languages, Wuywurung (spoken in three dialects on the site of Melbourne and to the north and west) and Wathawurung (spoken on the western side of Port Phillip Bay) were the first source of borrowings, though the surviving words number no more than sixteen.
There are 509 references to animals; fifty-nine to flowers; fifty-three to fruits and nuts; sixteen to vegetables, and eighteen to herbs.
Whenever I see the term African-American , with its sixteen letters, in print twelve times in a single article, I wonder if the writer realizes how much space is wasting and how pedantic it all sounds.