8 sentences with 'fifty'

Example sentences and phrases with the word fifty and other words derived from it.

• « The impact of the meteorite had left a crater about fifty meters in diameter. »
fifty: The impact of the meteorite had left a crater about fifty meters in diameter.
• « A good diet should be fifty percent carbohydrates. »
• « For just over fifty years, the Medes continued to dominate the Iranian plateau. »
• « It is impossible to overstate the importance of these changes. Even fairly primitive agriculture can produce fifty times more caloric energy than hunting and gathering. »
• « For some fifty years, Byzantium (now reduced to a fraction of its former size) was ruled by a Catholic king. Even when the king was deposed and a Greek dynasty was restored, nothing could be done to regain the lost territory. »
• « Over the next fifty years, various groups of Germanic invaders roamed Europe, plundering and, soon, settling down to occupy territory that had only recently been part of the Roman Empire. Most of these groups soon established kingdoms of their own. »
• « Emperor Severus Alexander was assassinated in 235 CE. All but one of the emperors who followed over the next fifty years were either assassinated or died in battle as well; there were twenty-six emperors in those fifty years, and only one died of natural causes. »
• « In the end, the Crusaders established a Latin Christian government that lasted some fifty years, completely ignoring their original goal of sailing to the Holy Land. The only lasting effect of the Fourth Crusade was the weakening of Byzantium against Turkish invaders in the future. »

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