FIFTEEN

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Traducere în limba română

fifteen I. numeral, adjectiv, pronume, substantiv

cincisprezece;

(sport) fifteen all egal 15 (la tenis).

fifteen II. substantiv

1. (sport) echipă de rugbi, cincisprezece.

2. (ist.) the Fifteen a) răscoala iacobiţilor din 1715; b) tribunal, curte.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Five to four against Silver Blaze! Five to fifteen against Desborough! Five to four on the field!”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wasn’t best pleased, Mr. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father’s death, and a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive little girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

We pay, or our friends pay, fifteen pounds a year for each.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many women have done more.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

A girl of fifteen! the very age of all others to need most attention and care, and put the cheerfullest spirits to the test!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He knew that in his room he could manufacture a substantial breakfast at a cost of from fifteen to twenty cents.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The numerical sum between zero and ten that is computed from individual values of zero to two that are assigned to five different areas of interest in newborn screenings at fifteen minutes after birth.

(Apgar Score at Fifteen Minutes, NCI Thesaurus)

Suddenly from the near belt of trees there broke forth a group of twelve or fifteen Indians, running for their lives, and at their very heels two of those frightful monsters which had disturbed our camp and pursued me upon my solitary journey.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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