Collocations for "sixty"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sixty" in context.
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sixty
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- the [show, presentation, talk] lasts sixty minutes
- took sixty minutes to [write, complete, get home]
- there are sixty minutes in an hour
- costs sixty [dollars, euros, pounds]
- weighs sixty [kilos, grams, ounces, pounds]
- measures sixty [miles, feet, meters]
- [drove, ran, walked] sixty [miles]
- is sixty [miles] from [home, the coast, the nearest city]
- [scored, gained, amassed] sixty points
- is sixty years [old, of age]
- was [driving, travelling, moving] at sixty [miles per hour]
- the [estate, plot, farm] [covers, has] sixty [acres]
- sixty per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- [about, roughly, more or less] sixty people (came)
- sixties [music, fashion, style]
- were sixty (of them) in [total, all]
- a (grand) total of sixty
- [almost, nearly, roughly, exactly] sixty
- [a maximum, a minimum, an average] of sixty
- [at, over] the age of sixty
- from sixty to [seventy]
- [up to, until] sixty
- sixty [multiplied, divided] by [ten]
- multiples of sixty
- is in her [early, mid-, late] sixties
- must have been [more than, at least] sixty
- today's [high, maximum] will be sixty
- was [born, popular] in the sixties
- we're in room sixty
- won't sell it for less than sixty
- was [driving, going] at least sixty
'sixty' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):