a
/ˈeɪ/, /ə/
determinerused when we want to talk about a person or thing for the first time or when other people may not know who or what they are
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1. A girl brings back some oranges.
2. A woman brings back some bananas.
3. His most successful business as a teenager was running a lottery.
4. Every grain tells a story.
5. A colleague was physically there.
hundred
/ˈhəndɝd/, /ˈhəndɹəd/, /ˈhəndɹɪd/, /ˈhənɝd/
numeralthe number 100; the number of years in a century
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1. And hundreds joined Dunmore’s forces.
2. Hundreds died.
3. Scientists first suggested this theory hundreds of years ago.
4. It has hundreds.
5. So you say hundreds.
and
/ˈænd/, /ənd/
conjunctionused to connect two words, phrases, or sentences referring to related things
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1. The system revolutionized the restaurant business and introduced the term "fast food."
2. His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
3. And both methods came up with pretty similar results.
4. His determination and devotion moved the princess.
5. And the court then has to make a determination.
five
/ˈfaɪv/
numeralthe number 5; the number of fingers we have on one hand
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1. There are about five million people in Scotland.
2. About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
3. At least five migrant children have died in government custody since September.
4. - Do five!
5. One. - One, two - Two - Three - Three - Four - Four, five - Make an omelet.
two hundred
/tˈuː hˈʌndɹəd/
adjectivereferring to the numerical value that represents the result of multiplying two by one hundred
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three hundred
/θɹˈiː hˈʌndɹəd/
adjectivereferring to the numerical value that represents the quantity or value obtained by multiplying three by one hundred
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fifty
/ˈfɪfti/
numeralthe number 50; the number of fingers on five monkeys
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1. Fifty percent said, "Warm beer."
2. At the age, fifty was a very advanced age.
3. That subject is fifty shades.
4. The larger craft could transport fifty to a hundred troops in their hold.
5. You accept fifties?
seventy-five
/ˈsɛvəntiˌfaɪv/
adjectivethe number 75; the number of legs on seven crabs plus five
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1. Did you know Seventy-five percent of people say they’re shy in social situations.
thousand
/ˈθaʊzən/, /ˈθaʊzənd/
numeralthe number 1000; the number of meters in one kilometer
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1. About ten thousand years ago, humans learned to farm.
2. Apparently, the human nose has about one thousand different types of olfactory neurons.
3. About five thousand people live in The City, and at weekends it feels empty.
4. The Trump era restriction affected thousands of migrants.
5. Thousands of goldfish have infested West Medical Lake and are now crowding out the native fish population.
million
/ˈmɪɫjən/
numeralthe number 1 followed by 6 zeros; 1,000,000
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1. There are about five million people in Scotland.
2. About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
3. They bilked people out of a million dollars, and when they just went broke recently, they still owe somebody else another million euros.
4. They bilked people out of a million dollars, and when they just went broke recently, they still owe somebody else another million euros.
5. Schneider puts millions through the Trump Toronto.