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How to pronounce twelve in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 12, dozen, xii
Type Words
Synonyms 12, dozen, xii
Type of large integer
Has types boxcars

Examples of twelve

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Twelve or 13 when the film begins, in 1978, they are sweet and somehow unformed.
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Twelve years later they are now asking how long the Chinese Communists can last.
From the theepochtimes.com
Ashtead Colts FC has twelve youth teams ranging from mini colts and U8s to U17s.
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Available figures reveal nine amputations in children over a twelve-year period.
From the scoop.co.nz
Twelve per cent of convicted prisoners are there for driving while disqualified.
From the theaustralian.com.au
In San Francisco, for example, the price of a home climbed 12% in twelve months.
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Twelve years ago, Clarence Jackson was a prospering Phoenix, Ariz., businessman.
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Twelve-year-old Anandi is a child bride who was married off at the age of eight.
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Twenty children, with an average age of twelve years were involved in the study.
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More examples
  • Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
  • The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
  • Twelve is the second album by Cobalt 60, a side-project of Front 242's Jean-Luc De Meyer.
  • Twelve is a novel by Lauren Myracle, it is the sequel to Eleven. Twelve follows the life of twelve year-old Winnie Perry through the challenges of life, from boys to friends and growing up.
  • Twelve is a novel by Nick McDonell about drug addiction, violence and sex among mainly wealthy Manhattan teenagers. The title refers to a new designer drug which the protagonist of the novel, White Mike, sells. The drug is referred to as a cross between cocaine and ecstasy.
  • Twelve is an album by Patti Smith, released April 17, 2007 on Columbia Records. As the title suggests, the album contains twelve tracks, all of which are cover versions. It debuted on Billboard 200 at number 60, with 11,000 copies sold in its first week. ...
  • Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardu00E8re Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006...
  • The Twelve is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.
  • A minor prophet is one of the writings in the Twelve Prophets section of the Hebrew Bible, also known to Christians as the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. ...