Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
forty-seven [fawr-tee-sev-uh n] Examples noun
- a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- a symbol for this number, as 47 or XLVII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 47 in number.
Examples from the Web for forty-seven Contemporary Examples of forty-seven
Then, at six minutes and forty-seven seconds of the third period, that thing happened for which the Detroit hockey fans wait.
Gordie Howe Hockey’s Greatest War Horse
W.C. Heinz
May 31, 2014
On the first day alone at least forty-seven persons were injured and sixty to seventy cars stoned.
Jamelle Bouie
March 13, 2014
In November 1990, forty-seven women drove in the Kingdom and were summarily arrested.
Prince Naif’s War On Saudi Liberals And How Obama Is Abetting The Crackdown
David Keyes
November 11, 2011
Pitt: How many player evaluations did I ask you for?Hill: ThreePitt: How many did you do?Hill: Forty-seven.
Allen Barra
September 29, 2011
Forty-seven of 50 Senate Democrats and 197 of 210 House Democrats backed NCLB; 94 percent in both cases.
The GOP’s One-Sided War on Dems
Michael Tomasky
September 9, 2011
Historical Examples of forty-seven
The Dardanelles, from end to end, have a length of forty-seven miles.
The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)
Various
Eighteen forty-four, forty-five, forty-six—here it is—forty-seven.
Sir Hall Caine
Forty-seven bishops have sat upon the episcopal throne of Bristol.
England, Picturesque and Descriptive
Joel Cook
In all six hundred and forty-seven pieces we carried to where they now rest.
Frederick Orin Bartlett
Of the Uhlans forty-seven were killed, and nineteen wounded remained on the ground.
G. A. Henty