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How to use ninety-nine in a sentence

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According to the International Cricket Council, ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers chuck!
Two hundred and ninety-nine delegates had registered for the 2001 annual meeting.
Twelve nominations were submitted in French and the remaining ninety-nine were submitted in English.
The legislative branch consists of a bicameral general assembly with ninety-nine representatives and thirty senators and the vice president.
He returned to his home state of Connecticut, became a successful banker, and lived to be ninety-nine.
The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine percent animal and one percent human.
Nearly ninety-nine percent of Austrians speak German, although at least four different dialects are in use.
And if he finds it, he will surely rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn't wander away!
I took the one per cent of me that was a reckless debauchee like John Seff and imagined that the other ninety-nine per cent didn't exist. That's how novels are written.
Without an ounce of fat, at a trim ninety-nine minuthe, the movie pierces like a bullet, leaving a clean hole.
His art could be confused for Pop, but it had none of the superciliousness and smugness that makes ninety-nine per cent of Pop so aggravating.
If I said this to a hundred people in America, I would be challenged at best and ridiculed at worst by ninety-nine different degrees of skepticism.
The ninety-nine percent that is animal causes very little trouble.
Of course, after a grim day over the washboard, most of us can think of ninety-nine things we'd rather do than carry on a stimulating conversation with a three-year old.
In the fullness of time, ninety-nine percent of the bad, ugly, stupid, obtuse, and banal remains so, and remains so unmemorable that it sinks into oblivion.
The duration of the Company is fixed at ninety-nine years as from the date of its incorporation, except in the event of early dissolution or extension under the conditions provided for by law.
We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.
For ninety-nine per cent of the time man has been on earth he was a food gatherer, and only during the remaining one per cent has he been a food producer.
The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Ninety-nine per cent of patients are being seen inside the government target of four hours.
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I have followed you and watched you, and I know that ninety-nine hundredths of this madness is not yours.
They captured one officer and ninety-nine of other ranks, and several machine guns and a trench mortar.
Morgan said in joke that there was a miscount, and that he actually received only ninety-nine blows.
From the 12th of April to the 30th there were ninety-eight or ninety-nine shocks of earthquake.
She is a tall spindlin' woman, a Second Adventist by perswasion, and weighs about ninety-nine pounds.
By 1872 two hundred and ninety-nine Fourdrinier machines were running in the United States alone.
What boundless presumption it is to claim for a system which robs ninety-nine per cent.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
The gate led into a square court, into which opened a hundred doors, ninety-nine of them being of rare woods and one of gold.
Or, to be on the safe side, I'll say he could uproot your tree in ninety-nine summers.
But I figure it's enough for ninety-nine crooks out of a hundred, and nineteen out of twenty 'll have their liquor before they go to work.
We were right in principle, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic of events, the accuracy of our judgment.
The doctors said that it was puerperal fever, and that it was ninety-nine chances in a hundred it would end in death.
Can it have better recommendations to ninety-nine hundredths of mankind?
The cenotaph is engraved with ninety-nine names of the deity.
Russia may seethe with revolution, but ninety-nine per cent.
He followed his directions, and rode on his way, and after another ninety-nine days he arrived at a golden castle, which stood in the middle of a vast wilderness.
Ninety-nine hundredths of this amiable world of ours would have guffawed the poor creature into imperceptibility ages ago.
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