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Ninety-nine and out
Ninety-nine percent of the park was burnt out in the Bendora bushfire of 18 January 2003 resulting in the loss of countless numbers of wildlife.
" Ninety-nine out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom.

Ninety-nine and on
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,

Ninety-nine and .
* 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
Ninety-nine districts ( wilaya ), each with at least one council, have been created to further increase local authority ; the councils are also known as local government authorities.
Ninety-nine percent of American households have at least one television and the majority of households have more than one.
Ninety-nine persons were executed, including Prince Gennaro Serra, who was publicly beheaded, and others, such as the intellectual Mario Pagano who had written the republican constitution ; the scientist Domenico Cirillo ; Gabriele Manthoné, the minister of war under the republic ; Massa, the defender of Castel dell ’ Ovo ; Ettore Carafa, the defender of Pescara, who had been captured by treachery ; and Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, court-poet turned revolutionary and editor of il Monitore Napoletano, the newspaper of the republican government.
Ninety-nine is a card game for 2, 3, or 4 players.
Ninety-nine seats were elected from single seat geographical constituencies under the Single Member Plurality or ' first past the post ' system.
Ninety-nine entire families died in the Johnstown deluge, including 396 children.
Ninety-nine bottles of beer.
Ninety-nine percent of American households have at least one television and the majority of households have more than one.
* Rock Climbing and Rappelling: Ninety-nine acres of forest land have been set aside for rock climbing and rappelling in Hocking State Forest.
For most of the way he is accompanied by a group of people who together with him form the Ka-tet of the Nineteen and Ninety-nine, consisting of Jake Chambers, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean, and Oy.
: Ninety-nine percent of all these catfish were farm-raised.
Ninety-nine were killed and 100 were injured.
Ninety-nine percent of American households in 1999 had at least one radio ; the average is five per household.
It was listed by Anthony Burgess as one of his Ninety-nine Novels: The best in English since 1939.
Ninety-nine percent of the documents related to the issue have been kept confidential.
He is one of the popular duo ( kombi ) Ninety-nine with Takashi Okamura, who are one of Yoshimoto Kogyo's most successful acts.
Bomber is regarded well in some circles, Kingsley Amis rated Bomber one of the ten best books of the 20th century and Anthony Burgess, in Ninety-nine Novels, cited it as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.
Ninety-nine fishermen had settled in northern Minnesota by 1857, when an economic panic caused most of the claims to be abandoned.
Ninety-nine stores were bought by Taco Bell in 1984, effectively ending the history of the chain.

times and out
he is out of place in our times.
He was in and out of Mount Alto Hospital for veterans any number of times.
Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.
I'll never forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the game.
Give me a team of nine angry men and I'll give you a team of nine gentlemen and we'll beat you nine out of ten times ''.
`` For one thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day ''.
And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.
The effect of angst is achieved by Shostakovich, Mahler and Berg in compositions of wide dynamic range, at times seemingly spinning out of control ( Mahler ), and atonal music using the twelve-tone row method of composition ( Berg, Schoenberg and others ) to create an angst ridden atmosphere of grotesque sound.
Suggested alternatives include: a community under the pressure of starvation or extreme social stress, dismemberment and cannibalism as religious ritual or in response to religious conflict, the influx of outsiders seeking to drive out a settled agricultural community via calculated atrocity, or an invasion of a settled region by nomadic raiders who practiced cannibalism ; such peoples have existed in other times and places, e. g. the Androphagi of Europe.
Locally, the relatives of the camel, the llama, and the alpaca continue to carry out important uses as pack animals, but this use has generally diminished in modern times.
His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.
In pre-Qin dynasty times, leather armour was made out of various animals, with more exotic ones such as the rhinoceros.
According to Hill, during her two years of employment as Thomas's assistant, Thomas had asked her out socially many times, and after she refused, he used work situations to discuss sexual subjects.
The same phenomenon results in extremely fast spin of compact stars ( like white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes ) when they are formed out of much larger and slower rotating stars ( indeed, decreasing the size of object 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > times results in increase of its angular velocity by the factor 10 < sup > 8 </ sup >).
The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).
Erronius immediately determines to have a soothsayer come and banish the spirit from his house, and Pseudolus obligingly poses as one, telling Erronius that in order to banish the spirit, he must travel seven times around the seven hills of Rome ( thus keeping the old man occupied and out of the way for quite a while ).
Hipparcos also suggested that Arcturus is a binary star, with the companion about twenty times dimmer than the primary and orbiting close enough to be at the very limits of our current ability to make it out.
* FC — Fielder's choice: times reaching base safely because a fielder chose to try for an out on another runner
* K — Strike out ( also abbreviated SO ): number of times that a third strike is taken or swung at and missed, or bunted foul.
** CS — Caught stealing: times tagged out while attempting to steal a base

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