Thirty (Adjective)
Meaning
Being ten more than twenty.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The task required you to run thirty kilometers today which is ten kilometers more than the twenty kilometers you ran last week.
- Thirty students applied for the scholarship this year, surpassing the twenty students who applied last year.
- At the store, the lady bought thirty kilograms of rice which was ten kilograms more than her friend who purchased twenty kilograms the previous day.
- A new high-rise apartment has thirty floors which is ten more levels than the neighboring twenty-story office building downtown.
- By the time she was thirty years old, she was a renowned artist, having built a reputation that was unparalleled by the twenty-year-old painter from the other neighborhood.