Collocations for "thirteen"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "thirteen" in context.
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thirteen
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- are thirteen [pieces, parts, chapters]
- is thirteen years old
- will be thirteen (years old) (tomorrow)
- a thirteen-year-old [child, dog]
- thirteen [weeks, days] later
- thirteen weeks [ago, before, after]
- took me thirteen hours to finish
- thirteen [years, months, minutes]
- thirteen [patients, victims, students]
- costs thirteen [dollars, euros, pounds]
- weighs thirteen [kilos, grams, ounces, tons]
- measures thirteen [miles, feet, meters]
- is thirteen [miles] [long, deep, out]
- is thirteen [miles] from [home, the airport, the city center]
- is thirteen years [old, of age]
- thirteen per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- the album has thirteen [tracks, songs]
- were thirteen (of them) in [total, all]
- unlucky thirteen
- thirteen is unlucky
- is no [floor, row] thirteen
- the number thirteen
- [section, part, page] thirteen
- [in room, on floor] thirteen
- [turn to, on] page thirteen
- thirteen plus [one] [equals, is, makes] [fourteen]
- thirteen [minus, take away] [one] [equals] [twelve]
- [multiply, divide] it by thirteen
- there are thirteen in total
- thirteen out of [twenty]
- a family of thirteen
- no [more, fewer] than thirteen
- (just) turned thirteen
- [about, approximately, around, near] thirteen
- [just, only] thirteen left
'thirteen' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):