twenty-fourths

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of twenty-fourth.
  twenty-fourth

  adjective

  next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.

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twenty-fourths

"We are twenty-three twenty-fourths of the nation, and the more useful part at that," retorted the Commons.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell

Any number of farthings is as many mils and as many twenty-fourths of a mil.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith

Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time.

From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey

But then no such thing as a twenty-fourth note is in use: three twenty-fourths would just do it!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

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