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quinze |
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| fifteen, 15 | |
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Mon père n'a que quinze ans.
My father is only fifteen years old. |
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Le livre coûte quinze dollars.
The book costs fifteen dollars. |
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Tournez toutes les quinze minutes.
Stir once every fifteen minutes. |
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Ça coûtait moins de quinze dollars.
It was less than fifteen dollars. | It cost less than fifteen dollars. |
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Je suis instituteur depuis quinze ans.
I have been a teacher for 15 years. |
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Il y a un bus toutes les quinze minutes.
There is a bus every fifteen minutes. |
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Le comité est composé de quinze personnes.
The committee consists of fifteen people. |
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Levez-vous quinze minutes plus tôt le matin.
Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. |
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Mon père vit à Nagoya depuis plus de quinze ans.
My father has lived in Nagoya for more than fifteen years. |
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Sur la Lune, je pèserais seulement quinze kilos.
On the moon I would weigh only fifteen kilos. |
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Selon Andy Warhol, chacun aura quinze minutes de renommée.
According to Andy Warhol, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. |
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Entre quinze et seize ans, il a grandi de trois pouces entiers.
Between the ages of 15 and 16, he grew three whole inches. |
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Dix mille plus cinq mille cinq cents font quinze mille cinq cents.
Ten thousand plus five thousand and five cents make fifteen thousand and five cents. |
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Il quitta sa ville natale à l'âge de quinze ans pour ne jamais revenir.
He left his hometown at the age of fifteen never to return. |
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C'est quoi le problème si je vérifie mes courriels toutes les quinze minutes ?
What's the big deal about checking my email every 15 minutes? |
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Bon, je vais encore traduire quinze phrases en allemand, mais après je m'en vais.
Well, I'll translate fifteen more sentences in German, but after that I'm leaving. |
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À partir de maintenant, tu deviendras le garçon de quinze ans le plus fort au monde.
From now on, you will become the toughest fifteen year old in the world. |
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Une fois que vous allumez la mèche, vous avez quinze secondes pour vous mettre à l'abri.
Once you light the fuse you'll have fifteen seconds to get to safety. |
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Quand je travaillais dans une école publique, j'avais de dix à quinze étudiants par classe.
When I was working for a public school, I had ten to fifteen students in a class. |
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| Examples sourced from tatoeba.org |

