What is "thirty-eight"

Usage examples of "thirty-eight".

All thirty-eight members of the ISEG had been deployed to the British base area in Oman, and the MD-80 aircraft that Robertson had ordered had been repainted as an Aer Lingus cargo plane on charter to the UN.

I already have thirty-eight pre-sold copies of the hardcover, with orders still coming in, and nearly that many of her backlist set aside.

On the other hand, Batu was only thirty-eight, and, though he was also a first-degree general, he commanded an army of only five thousand men.

Chapter Thirty-eight The city fathers had laid out the plans for Boise City with care--straight streets and square blocks, nestled between the tree-lined river and the rugged foothills.

Rosemary, a trim, attractive brunette of thirty-eight, was a former carhop who, after a series of waitress jobs and a bad marriage, had opened her own dress shop, the Boutique Carriage, on North Figueroa in Los Angeles, and made a big success of it.

High-pressure air and fuel were mixed in the HIGH FLIGHT 537 combustor to create a controlled explosion, the mixture burning as high as thirty-eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit.

That meant he had left Mars three hundred and fourteen years ago by Old Earth time, three hundred and thirty-eight years ago by Dest time, ignoring, as he always did, the fact that it was virtually meaningless to speak of simultaneity on two planets so far apart in a relativistic universe.

A widow, frena Dezov was aged thirty-eight, and there was a photograph that showed a handsome dark-haired woman.

I backed them off to thirty-eight hundred rpm, listened, made my apologies to Davey Hoople, master marine mechanic, age nineteen.

She rummaged through the downloaded Pax Base Bombasino files to identify the sleeping trooper -- a Lusian named Gerrin Pawtz, thirty-eight standard years old, a lazy, initiative-free alcohol addict, two years away from retirement, six demotions and three sentences to brigtime in his file, assignments relegated to garrison duty and the most mundane base tasks -- and then she deleted the file.

But like thirty-eight percent of the nurses who responded to the quality-of-care survey, I have done something that made a patient worse.

Ho-soap star Aid Emsiso won big on his first foray into electoral politics today, not only outpolling the other candidate for the CCU post by a large majority, but also increasing CCU enrollment in the New England region by thirty-eight percent.

Campbell quotes another such case in a woman of thirty-eight who for twenty years had practised her vocation as a Cyprian, and who unexpectedly conceived.

Chapter Thirty-Eight Gavin rode out with Stubs and Jess at the crack of dawn that May morning, as they had every morning for the past week.

At the age of about thirty-eight, he was the only male survivor of all the seventeen children of Ethelred and Knut.