What is "eighty-five"

Usage examples of "eighty-five".

IN LATE 1820, at age eighty-five, Adams found himself chosen as a delegate to a state convention called to revise the Massachusetts constitution that he had drafted some forty years before.

Obviously, many of their systems had to be new-construction, but the truth is, that probably at least eighty-five percent of the design was based on existing hardware.

While an average bootie wears through after just one or two runs, any lost booties that are still serviceable are worth retrieving, since they cost between sixty and eighty-five cents apiece.

We left Juarez with a stake of, I think, eighty-five bucks between us.

In the year 1888, I grew eighty-five different varieties and strains of cabbages and cauliflowers.

Monte Roraima, El Grande rose as high as eight thousand feet above the Gran Sabana, and stretched eighty-five miles from end to end.

With the federal Drug Enforcement Administration estimating that one in every eighty-five vehicles on the interstates carried illegal drugs or drug money, property seized from vehicles had become a major source of income for rural Crittenden County.

But ten spaceships had set out for there during the eighty-five or so years that had elapsed since the invention of the Thrust.

I spent three weeks in the town, my time being divided between my dear Dubois and an old lady of eighty-five who interested me greatly by her knowledge of chemistry.

In consideration of the public lands, works, and property vested as aforesaid in the United States, the United States will assume and discharge the funded debt and contingent liabilities of the late provinces, at rates of interest not exceeding five per centum, to the amount of eighty-five million seven hundred thousand dollars, apportioned as follows: to Canada West, thirty-six million five hundred thousand dollars.

In Santa Teresa, California, approximately eighty-five percent of all criminal homicides are resolved, meaning that the assailant is identified, apprehended, and the question of guilt or innocence is adjudicated by the courts.

If, as is suggested, they left the Earth system some one hundred and eighty-five years ago, they must have first aimed for Sirius-B.

Just shy of eighty-five irals in length, she was slim as a needle, with a tiny, ultraraked flight bridge faired into a sharply pointed nose and two prominent, blisterlike housings high on either side of the hull, approximately ten irals abaft the side Hyperscreens.

From there I might make a broad calendric jump of some four hundred eighty-five or six years to modern times and to the island of Uxmal in the South Pacific, where Cit Coh Xiu is king.

That principle had been finally established in the riots of eighty-five which followed the law-and-order tyranny of eighty-four, when a choice had been made between the destruction of certain campus strongholds, and possibly the campuses themselves, and surrendering those buildings, and possibly the campuses as well, to the rioters.