Twenty Fourths

At any slower motion we see only a succession of static frames, which suggests that the brain establishes visual motion from stimuli occurring about twenty-fourths of a second apart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite this foresight, the spy was perceived as suspicious within seventeen twenty-fourths of a planetary rotation and was taken into custody by the local Third Planeter authorities. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But then no such thing as a twenty-fourth note is in use: three twenty-fourths would just do it! ❋ Various (N/A)

Three twenty-fourths (three bars) of the product of this mine netted, between the years 1811 and 1814, $337,000. ❋ Robert A. Wilson (N/A)

"We are twenty-three twenty-fourths of the nation, and the more useful part at that," retorted the Commons. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Any number of farthings is as many mils and as many twenty-fourths of a mil. To a certain extent, we feel able to protest against the manner in which ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)

Only that, as Sunday was exempted, the rigorous expression of the quota was one fourth of six-sevenths, which makes sixty twenty-eighths and not six twenty-fourths of the total time. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

And in animation you're studying time at one twenty-fourths of a second. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I will charge you seven twenty-fourths of a cent for that, thus making your bill twenty-three cents -- even money. " ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)

"Hey, it's february twenty fourth! I'm [gonna] go [hug] [stella]!" ❋ Im A Door Handle (2023)

"Dude my girlfriend took me to [twenty-fourth base] last night, it was [insane]!" "Well that explains [the wheelchair]." ❋ Bigsexysciencelady (2020)