Usage examples of "quatre vingt seize" in French with translation to English

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Tom et Marie vivent sur une ferme et ont seize enfants. Tom and Mary live on a farm and have 16 children.
Quatre ou cinq stylos dans sa poche de chemise, ça trahit bien un binoclard. Four or five pens in one's shirt pocket is a dead giveaway for a nerd.
Cette course de vingt kilomètres m'a vraiment lessivé. That twenty-kilometer run really wiped me out.
Quand bien même il n'a que seize ans, il ne dépend pas de ses parents. Though only 16, he is independent of his parents.
La guerre a duré quatre ans. The war had lasted four years.
Ma famille a vécu ici pendant vingt ans. My family have lived here for twenty years.
Nous devons encore marcher seize kilomètres avant le coucher du soleil. We have another ten miles to walk before sunset.
Il se rase quatre fois par semaine. He shaves four times a week.
Nous sommes restés coincés dans un embouteillage, ce qui nous a mis vingt minutes en retard. We got stuck in a traffic jam, which made us twenty minutes late.
Deux est la racine quatrième de seize. Two is the fourth root of sixteen.
Nous sommes façonnés par chaque culture, provenant des quatre coins de la Terre, et dévoués à une idée simple : E pluribus unum : "De plusieurs, un". We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."
Il écrivit ce livre à l'âge de vingt ans. He wrote this book at the age of twenty.
Linda a seize ans mais n'a aucun mal à passer pour une fille de 20 ans. Linda is sixteen, but had no trouble passing for twenty.
Si tu retranches quatre de dix, tu obtiens six. If you take four from ten, you have six.
Particulièrement au cours des vingt dernières années, le lien supposé entre des politiques de protection sociale avancées et l'échec économique dans les pays de l'Europe du Nord, semble mettre en évidence la difficulté à soutenir à la fois une complète protection sociale et une compétitivité internationale. Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity.
J'aurai seize ans le mois prochain. I will be sixteen years old next month.
Un carré a quatre côtés égaux. A square has four equal sides.
Il peut tout au plus payer vingt dollars. He can only pay twenty dollars at most.
J'aurai seize ans en septembre. I'll be sixteen in September.
Un fer-à-cheval et un trèfle à quatre feuilles portent bonheur. A horseshoe and a four-leaf clover bring good luck.
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