What's the difference between sixth and sixty?

Sixth


Definition:

  • (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
  • (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
  • (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (2) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
  • (3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (4) The highest frequency occurred in the sixth decade.
  • (5) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
  • (6) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
  • (7) A sixth of the world's oil exports passes through it every day.
  • (8) School sixth-form funding Will be cut to bring it in line with that in colleges by 2015.
  • (9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
  • (10) In addition to generating a chemotactic factor, plasmin destroys the complement-associated chemotactic factor that is a trimolecular complex consisting of the fifth (C'5), sixth (C'6), and seventh (C'7) components of complement.
  • (11) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
  • (12) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
  • (13) The inhibitory effect of SMS on endogenous cholecystokinin release was fully operative on the sixth day of injection treatment, whereas the inhibitory effect on exogenous cholecystokinin injection significantly decreased after SMS administration for seven days, indicating desensitization of the end organ by somatostatin.
  • (14) )-sensitive mutants and have identified a sixth complementation group, line UV61.
  • (15) Residual bowel measuring 10 cm required prolonged TPN in the sixth infant and was not compatible with survival.
  • (16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
  • (17) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • (18) Participants were 206 healthy, volunteer low-to-middle-income Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white (Anglo-American) families (623 individuals), each with a fifth or a sixth-grade child.
  • (19) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (20) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.

Sixty


Definition:

  • (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
  • (n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
  • (n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
  • (2) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
  • (3) Sixty of 65 H. pylori-infected adults were correctly identified by the test.
  • (4) Sixty-one patients with Stage IB cervical carcinoma treated initially by Type III radical hysterectomy underwent water cystometry 6 or more months after surgery.
  • (5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (6) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
  • (7) Sixty-two serum concentrations were obtained from 12 infected patients enrolled in a vancomycin pharmacokinetic study.
  • (8) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
  • (9) Sixty-five patients with recrudescent orofacial herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections all had circulating HSV-specific antibody measured by ELISA and cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to HSV by in vitro lymphoproliferation.
  • (10) Sixty-eight patients (mean age 49 years) were studied with contrast echocardiography (CE) and Doppler echocardiography (DE) to evaluate both methods for detecting and grading tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
  • (11) Three hundred sixty five children and hundred thirty nine adults with atopic dermatitis were divided into three groups.
  • (12) Sixty-five percent of the consultations resulted in an endoscopic procedure.
  • (13) Sixty-nine patients (79%) were NYHA Functional Class (FC) I or II at latest follow-up.
  • (14) Eight bibliographic control elements are defined, and the criteria for evaluating the occurrence of these elements in sixty-four sample catalogs are specified.
  • (15) Sixty per cent of children had calcium intakes below two-thirds of the allowance.
  • (16) Sixty mother-toddler dyads (30 boys and 30 girls) participated as subjects.
  • (17) Two hundred and sixty six of the 309 patients recruited (86%) completed the study, with satisfactory compliance.
  • (18) Three hundred and sixty-nine homosexually active men from different areas of England were each assessed twice at an an interval of 9 months in order to examine the extent to which a number of social-psychological factors predicted subsequent high risk sexual behaviour.
  • (19) Sixty days after 5,7-DHT administration, immunoreactive serotonin in the forebrain, particularly the suprachiasmatic nuclei and intergeniculate leaflets, was severely depleted in 16 animals, moderately depleted in four and only slightly affected in four.
  • (20) Two hundred sixty-six male patients achieved a complete response and were evaluable for the effects of prophylactic therapy on the duration of remission.

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