It stood some fifty paces from the edge of the bank.

If you draw the short straw I'll lend you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off to visit my sister in Frisco.

Then, after I'm back, another fifty so you can put some mileage on yourself and have a solid alibi somewhere while I take care of your seat cover boy ''.

Out of curiosity the men of Beth-shemesh gazed at the Ark ; and as a punishment, seventy of them ( fifty thousand seventy in some ms .) were smitten by the Lord ( 1 Sam.

This code, from the 20th century BCE, contains some fifty articles, and scholars have reconstructed it by comparing several sources.

Most users report a typing speed of fifty characters per minute, though some reach over one hundred per minute.

Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

Faygo can be found in some regions of Canada, Cola being one of more than fifty flavors.

It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.

In 1986 they introduced the Index of Economic Freedom, which is based on some fifty variables.

In February 1613, with the chaos ended and the Poles expelled from Moscow, a national assembly, composed of representatives from fifty cities and even some peasants, elected Michael Romanov, the young son of Patriarch Filaret, to the throne.

Benjamin Z. Kedar estimates that there were between three hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty thousand non-Franks in the Kingdom, two hundred and fifty thousand of whom were villagers in the countryside, and " one may assume that Muslims were in the majority in some, possibly most parts of the kingdom of Jerusalem …" As Ronnie Ellenblum points out, there simply is not enough existing evidence to accurately count the population and any estimate is inherently unreliable.

He was sentenced to be handcuffed for fifty days ( some accounts say he briefly was imprisoned ).

The main reason some want to call it a triple jump is the presence of a source that claims there once was a fifty five ancient foot jump done by a man named Phayllos ( Miller, 68 ).

A leading chamber orchestra might employ as many as fifty musicians ; some are much smaller than that.

The English-speaking world waited until 1852 for its first paediatric hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, some fifty years after the founding of its namesake in Paris.

After some fifty years of this condition, Carthage had managed to discharge its war indemnity to Rome, and considered itself no longer bound by the restrictions of the treaty, although Rome believed otherwise.

In early September 2010, FARC-EP attacks in the southern departments of Nariño and Putumayo killed some fifty policemen and soldiers in hit-and-run assaults.

However, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the Christian author Lactantius, and Sextus Aurelius Victor ( who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources ), misunderstood the Tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories between the four emperors.

* 1251 – The German city of Berlin, founded some fifty years earlier, receives its city charter.

Veteran foreign correspondent Arnaud de Borchgrave worked for UP / UPI both early and late in his career, some fifty years apart.

In 1962, however, Dorji incurred disfavor with the Royal Bhutan Army over the use of military vehicles and the forced retirement of some fifty officers.

A total of about fifty prints were made ; some were copies of Raphael's paintings, but other designs were apparently created by Raphael purely to be turned into prints.

The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli ( captions ), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns.

The exact date of his death is not known ; some sources state that he died at the age of fifty.

Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

A talented child who studied dharma ( Buddhist teachings ) with his father from an early age and who sought out great teachers in his twenties and thirties, he is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of fifty while practicing dream yoga.

During the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, a combined fleet amounting to " fifty great ships Umbar and smaller vessels beyond count " was raiding the port city of Pelargir in Lebennin, but these were captured by Aragorn and the Army of the Dead, and were sailed to Minas Tirith to relieve the siege of the city.

During the following fifty years the community increased and endowments, including considerable landed estates, were secured, new fellowships were founded, the books which formed the foundation of the great library were acquired, a curriculum was devised and statutes were framed.

He used his great wealth for charity, supplying the needs of poor Talmudists and Kabbalists, fifty of whom reportedly dined at his table regularly.

They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell.

Amongst the fruits of his industry may be mentioned a laborious investigation of the disturbances of Jupiter by Saturn, the results of which were employed and confirmed by Euler in his prize essay of 1748 ; a series of lunar observations extending over fifty years ; some interesting researches in terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, in the latter of which he detected a regular diurnal period ; and the determination of the places of a great number of stars, including at least twelve separate observations of Uranus, between 1750 and its discovery as a planet.

The first production of Addison's Cato was made by the Whigs the occasion of a great demonstration of indignation against the peace, and by Bolingbroke for presenting the actor Barton Booth with a purse of fifty guineas for " defending the cause of liberty against a perpetual dictator " ( Marlborough ).

There is no central authority making nationwide curriculum recommendations and each of the fifty states has numerous school districts, each of which operates with a great degree of independence from one another.

And when he came to the pit, he descended down one hundred and fifty steps, bearing with him two lanterns, and found the dragon, and said the words that S. Peter had said to him, and bound his mouth with the thread, and sealed it, and after returned, and as he came upward again he met with two enchanters which followed him for to see if he descended, which were almost dead of the stench of the dragon, whom he brought with him whole and sound, which anon were baptized, with a great multitude of people with them.

" It is true that the moneylender Moses is portrayed in a comparatively positive light, but the way he is described ( as a " friendly Jew " and an " honest Israelite " by Rowley in III. 1 ) suggest that he is in some way to be considered an exception to Jews in general ; also, his own usurious business practices as stated to Sir Peter are clearly less than exemplary ( e. g., his statement " If he appears not very anxious for the supply, you should require only forty or fifty per cent ; but if you find him in great distress, and want the moneys very bad, you may ask double " ).

Of great impact were also the works by al-Maridini of Baghdad and Cairo, and Ibn al-Wafid ( 1008 – 1074 ), both of which were printed in Latin more than fifty times, appearing as De Medicinis universalibus et particularibus by ` Mesue ' the younger, and the Medicamentis simplicibus by ` Abenguefit '.

Moreover, domestic productions of Matsutake in Japan have been sharply reduced over the last fifty years due to a pine nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, and it has influenced the price a great deal.

" Church records, newspapers, religious journals, and other contemporary sources clearly reveal that great awakenings occurred in more than fifty western New York towns or villages during the revival of 1819 – 1820 .... Primary sources also specify that great multitudes joined the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Calvinist Baptist societies in the region of country where Joseph Smith lived.

The subsequent three hundred and fifty some years has produced a great deal of documentation and study of the neural systems.

In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.

) The enabling act was modeled upon that of the Mystic River Bridge Authority ( 1946 Acts and Resolves chapter 562 ), but several changes were made that would prove of great importance fifty years later.

Only fifty years after the city's founding, in − 3864 DR, a great and terrible battle between the two most powerful Houses, House Nasadra and House S ' sril, occurred.

During the War of the Ring, Umbar had not fully recovered from this, but could still send " fifty great ships and smaller vessels beyond count " to raid the coastlands of Gondor and draw off major forces from the defence of Minas Tirith.

Eventually Mu “ was completely obliterated in almost a single night ”: after a series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, " the broken land fell into that great abyss of fire " and was covered by " fifty millions of square miles of water.

She would quote the examples of Rameau ( who wrote his first opera at fifty ), Wojtowicz ( who became a concert pianist at thirty-one ) and Roussel ( who had no professional access to music till he was twenty-five ) as counter-arguments to the idea that great artists always develop out of gifted children.

The area had been a flourishing tract but prosperity was destroyed by warfare over the next fifty years, and by the great flood of 1841 in which the river Indus was blocked by a landslip below the Hatu Pir and the valley was turned into a lake.

Putlitz made his debut as a writer with a volume of romantic fairy stories in verse, Was sich der Wald erzählt ( Tales told among the woods ; 1850 ), which attained great popularity ( fifty editions ) and found many imitators.