ninety-nine

Speech parts

1. ninety-nine - Noun

2. ninety-nine - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

being one less than one hundred and nine more than ninety

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Examples

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. John Stuart Mill

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. Henry James

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder

May you live up to one hundred years and i up to ninety-nine. Japanese Proverb

He who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway. Japanese Proverb

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste. Maltese Proverb

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