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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

It is regretted that all the eighty-eight officers and men of H.M.S.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.

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




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