One day, outside the Simmons Bedding plant at Bay and Powell, Frank counted fifty men on the corner.

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Fifty men sat on low benches listening intently to a lecture delivered in a mixture of Tagalog and Arabic.

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Two hundred fifty men and women mill around the Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel ballroom, notepads in hand.

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General orders specified no fewer than fifty men.

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One woman who has dated fifty-eight men since her divorce, a few years ago, told me that she maintains a chart, both to keep the men straight and to try to discern patterns as though there might be a unified-field theory of why men are dogs.

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Fifty one percent of the men surveyed and 40 percent of women said they had never been dishonest about money with their spouse or partner.

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In a list generated by FECO (the organization of cartoonists in Europe), I counted fifty-one women out of hundreds of men.

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Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.

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Of the fifty or so people present, most were clean-cut men in their twenties or thirties.

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Fifty-eight percent of women, for instance, have never banked online, compared with 55% of men, according to Javelin's study.

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