7 sentences with 'sixty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sixty and other words derived from it.
• « In the last sixty years historians have made enormous progress in dealing with various areas that had traditionally been neglected, especially in considering the histories of people who were not in power, including ordinary people in various eras, of women throughout most of history, and of slaves and servants. »
• « Napoleon's military record matched his ambition: he fought sixty battles in the two decades he was in power, winning all but eight (those he lost were mostly towards the end of his reign). »
• « Other scientists followed his example and, by the end of the century, deaths in Europe from infectious diseases were reduced by sixty per cent, mainly thanks to improvements in hygiene (antibiotics would not be developed until the late 1920s). »
• « By World War II, however, the Indian National Congress had been agitating for independence for almost sixty years. »
• « Like South Carolina, Massachusetts established requirements for office: To be governor under the new constitution, a candidate had to have a net worth of at least 1,000 pounds. To be a state senator, a man had to own an estate of at least 300 pounds and have at least 600 pounds of total wealth. To vote, he had to have a net worth of at least sixty pounds. »
• « The territorial ordinances proved to be the great triumph of the Confederate Congress. Congress would appoint a governor for the territories, and when the territory's population reached five thousand free adult settlers, those citizens could create their own legislature and begin the process of moving toward statehood. When the population reached sixty thousand, the territory could become a new state. »
• « In 1855, Tennessee-born William Walker, along with an army of no more than sixty mercenaries, seized control of the Central American nation of Nicaragua. »