After a hacking spree that lasted fifty days and hit a wide range of corporate and government targets, LulzSec claimed to disband three weeks ago.

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Fifty-four days later, he resigned, citing "the unacceptable journalistic standards" of the flawed Newsnight report.

CNN: A steady rise, a fast fall for BBC's George Entwistle

The distance patients can walk two days after surgery has increased from fifty-three to eighty-five feet.

NEWYORKER: Big Med

Fifty-five statuettes disappeared from a Los Angeles loading dock just days before the ceremony in 2000.

NPR: The Curious Case Of A Missing Academy Award

Britain, which had the largest contingent after the U.S. - it provided more than 45, 000 troops in the early days of the war - they're down to just over 5, 000, fifty-five hundred troops now.

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After ten days on a ventilator, six per cent develop bacterial pneumonia, resulting in death forty to fifty-five per cent of the time.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

Those fifty-two-inch high-definition plasma televisions that people hang on the family room wall these days cost five times what a top-of-the-line set would have cost ten years ago, but buyers are willing to shell out the extra money because the enhanced viewing quality is worth the price.

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