Ninety-Five Theses

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the theses of Luther against the sale of indulgences in the Roman Catholic Church, posted by him on the door of a church in Wittenberg, October 31, 1517.

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How to use Ninety-Five Theses in a sentence

“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
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The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
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“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman