Group of Twenty-Four
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Tracey is also testing, on a group of twenty-four volunteers, a compound that she hopes could dampen activity in the problematic brain-stem region.
From The New Yorker
In other words, these students do not judge themselves as accurately as their friends judge them, if the average position assigned the individual by the group of twenty-four associates may be taken as a fair measure of the individual's true status in the group.
From Project Gutenberg
Subsequently it formed the most important of the Eleutherolaconian towns, a group of twenty-four, later eighteen, communities leagued together to maintain their autonomy against Sparta and declared free by Augustus.
From Project Gutenberg
During the battle, a chaplain, provided with four men to look after the wounded, came suddenly upon a group of twenty-four Rebels.
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