Sixteen in example sentence

Oh, my young friend, who else could have resisted the pleading of sixteen of our fairest sisters, and withstood their exhortations to subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket-handkerchiefs?''What's a moral pocket-ankercher?' said Sam; 'I never see one o' them articles o' furniter.'

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So my mom abandoned us when I was sixteen years old.

CA: Sixteen years ago, you became employee number seven at SpaceX, and then over the next years, you somehow built a multi-billion-dollar relationship with NASA, despite the fact that SpaceX's first three launches blew up.

Sixteen years later, you'd probably say the opposite.

I think I must have read every single Mills & Boon romance published before I was sixteen.

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