forty-seven

“So six bolts of silk at twice the price, plus the tariff, but minus my bargain to you as a Zoroastrian would be one hundred forty-seven drachms.”

He delivered his lines and was gone forty-seven seconds after he’d entered the room.

“I came to live in Seattle in 1990, when I was forty-seven. It was late — very late — in the day for a new start,” he writes about halfway through the book.

The watch on the wrist of the first soldier says forty-seven minutes after eight.

One hundred and forty-seven Republicans voted to reject legitimate electoral votes, only hours after Trump's followers had overrun the Capitol and ransacked it.