• There is a two phone order limit in twenty-two of the twenty-three countries with the US not having a limit.

    FORBES: Apple's iPhone 5 Web Site Lead Times Down to 1 Week

  • The National Archives sells a poster-size scroll, twenty-two inches by twenty-nine inches, that is a readable facsimile of the first page, for twelve dollars and ninety-five cents.

    NEWYORKER: The Commandments

  • On Monday, November 26, the shipping lead times for the iPhone 5 in twenty-one of the twenty-three countries I checked had decreased from two weeks to one week.

    FORBES: Apple's iPhone 5 Web Site Lead Times Down to 1 Week

  • You became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four.

    NEWYORKER: The Dog

  • The rest are scattered across the Midwest (fifty-eight), the mid-Atlantic (twenty-five), the mountain West (eighteen), and the Pacific (twenty-one).

    NEWYORKER: The House of Pain

  • It recruited twenty-four teacher coaches for the twenty-seven schools in the semi-rural district. (Charlottesville is the county seat, but it runs a separate school district.) Many teacher-coaching programs concentrate on newer teachers, and this one is no exception.

    NEWYORKER: Personal Best

  • At Carnegie, he had a chorus of twenty-one singers and an ensemble of twenty-six players.

    NEWYORKER: The Book of Bach

  • Twenty-five percent of sales does not mean twenty-five percent of overhead.

    FORBES: Your Unprofitable Customers Are Killing You

  • Twenty-First's Web site ( www.twenty-first.com) has a calculator to help with your decision.

    FORBES: Your Portfolio Versus the IRS

  • According to the CouchSurfing Web site, the average age of members is twenty-eight, with more than a third between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four (seven hundred and ninety-three members are between eighty and eighty-nine).

    NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome

  • You'd put in fifty cents a week, and in December, you got a fortune -- twenty-five dollars.

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

  • We never feel that anyone involved in making this multimillion-dollar, two-hour-and-twenty-one-minute spectacle had any real affection for the story.

    NEWYORKER: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

  • The prison administration gave Dellelo five years in the Departmental Disciplinary Unit of the Walpole prison, its hundred-and-twenty-four-cell super-maximum segregation unit.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • Thirty days is just a tiny fraction of the two-year commitment you sign when buying discounted phones in the US -- one-twenty-fourth of the actual time you're stuck with the device before switching phones.

    ENGADGET: Back to BlackBerry: a power user's perspective Mobile

  • William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), upon entering Parliament in 1780 at the age of twenty-one, resolved, with the aid of his friend William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch), soon to be Prime Minister at the age of twenty-four, to end the slave trade in the British Empire.

    NEWYORKER: Amazing Grace

  • Twenty years ago when I was twenty-two years old, I experienced an anxiety attack so severe, I thought I was going to have a heart attack and die.

    FORBES: Whitney Houston's Death Sparks Questions About Over-Prescription of Sedatives

  • The oyaji girl--a twenty-something professional who works hard and plays hard--has been the clearest beneficiary of the new latitude for women.

    ECONOMIST: The new women in Japan

  • They were married on March 29, 1813--his twenty-third birthday.

    WHITEHOUSE: Letitia Christian Tyler

  • Everyone in this hamlet, it seemed, had just found a sixteen- or twenty-three-cent stamp in a dusty drawer, and had chosen today to supplement it up to viability using car-seat nickels and pennies.

    NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

  • This is where adrenaline junkies come to attach themselves to bungee cords and jump off bridges, and where young world travelers party until dawn (or well after, given the well-dressed twenty-something couple I saw emerge from the woods at 8am and stagger back into town).

    FORBES: New Zealand Wine's Need For Nudity

  • The CPI might go up 125% in one decade (as it did 1971-1981), the dollar could permanently lose 66% against major currencies (as it did against the yen in this period), and commodities could shoot up ten-to twenty-five fold (as was the case with oil and gold).

    FORBES: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money

  • The album opens with "Pistolas at Twenty Paces, " a fierce, 30-second, rattling guitar strum which mimics the tense soundtracks of the twenty-pace gunfights in old westerns.

    NPR: Have Gun, Will Travel: 'Blessing And A Curse'

  • T. for cancer research, twenty million to Johns Hopkins University, and twenty-five million to the M.

    NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

  • His first tweet, a simple five-word, twenty-three character burst came at 12:20 PM EST.

    FORBES: Connect

  • By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away.

    NEWYORKER: Small Change

  • "The narrative is not always straightforward, as places are different, " says Audrey Singer, an immigration expert at Brookings and co-editor of Twenty-First-Century Gateways, a book published earlier this year which identifies new trends in immigration.

    FORBES: America's New Immigrant Capitals

  • Willingham was held in isolation in a sixty-square-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • In 1972, Nixon won another term by a popular-vote margin of twenty-three points.

    NEWYORKER: The Second Term

  • And the bureaucracy of new ships, now called NAP-C, is twenty-five thousand bureaucrats.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In May, 2007, he married Khadiga el-Gammal, now twenty-seven, a graduate of the American University, in a lavish private ceremony in Sharm-al-Sheikh.

    NEWYORKER: The Contenders

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