the eighty-eight
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Bevelacqua, noticing the eighty-eight, shook his head and said, “We’re looking for the hundreds.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2018
Of the eighty-eight thousand residents, sixty-six thousand were white, while twenty-two thousand were black.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
I ’ad six nippers, then I goes and leaves one on a bus, the eighty-eight up from Brixton.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Seventy of the eighty-eight counties now have such schools and the trend is toward them throughout the State.
From The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox by Morris, Charles E.
Ohio, for example, had some form of local organization in eighty out of the eighty-eight counties in the state, and California had ninety local county and city committees all reporting to the central committee.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
