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
How many of the eighty-eight thousand stockholders in the Pennsylvania Railroad, for instance, have ever attended a meeting?
From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various
It was but their one evening of liberty before they settled down to ordinary school routine, and for the rest of the eighty-eight days before Easter their behaviour would be quite exemplary.
From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela
