• Mark Hurd wanted people experienced with tough problems, like laying off fifteen thousand people.

    NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

  • This groundbreaking series, that tells its story in real time, is so action-packed in the first fifteen minutes that it feels like a big-budget movie.

    BBC: 24 continues to thrill

  • The development of the Personal Computer (PC) in the 1980s, for instance, created a new industry that grew exponentially for more than fifteen years, rewarding major players like Microsoft and Intel.

    FORBES: How To Ride The Growth Of The Smartphone Industry

  • Julian drove into town and bought an electric heater, but under the fifteen-foot ceilings the device was like a spark at the North Pole.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • But some of us didn't like input meetings when they were scheduled for twelve-fifteen.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'

  • The evolution of the smartphone, in many ways, is like watching a rerun of the evolution of the PC on a fifteen-year delay -- but this is one aspect that's completely foreign.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: Should your next mobile OS update cost you?

  • Fifteen million is a staggering number--it's like you have 30, 000 schools in which every child is at sub-literate levels.

    FORBES: 01.23.08, 6:00 PM ET

  • During the past fifteen years, the medium has been transformed by bad boys like Walter White and sad sacks like Louis C.

    NEWYORKER: Hannah Barbaric

  • At fifteen, Joe was mostly legs -- leg-bones, more like it -- and a head taller than his friends.

    CNN: Excerpt: 'Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life'

  • Fran Healy admitted it was like playing for his family, and with a little impromptu slide-show of their fifteen months on the road and his concern for the people getting a bit squashed at the front you could see how he got his warm and fuzzy reputation.

    BBC: Iced T in the Park

  • The marriage of Ben and Katie Jordan (Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer) has been sliding steadily downward for fifteen years, although, for those of us in the audience, it feels like a whole lot longer.

    NEWYORKER: The Story of Us

  • Fifteen minutes of fame are nothing compared to the starry currency of social shorthand, even if both, like the Perseids, are just as fleeting.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He hauled it in, slid himself back via something like a reverse breaststroke, got to his knees, stood, retreated a few steps, and was once again fifteen feet away and safe.

    NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

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