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
Bar iron did duty on all the eighty-eight hundred miles of American and sixty-five hundred of British railway; not many, if at all, more than are now laid, in this country at least, with steel.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
