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(also lxxx, LXXX)Equivalent to the product of eight and ten; ten less than ninety; 80.‘eighty miles north’‘a buffet for eighty’‘eighty of the nurses fled’- ‘By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.’
- ‘I think it's about eighty or ninety years old at most, but it has an extremely unusual quality.’
- ‘I read somewhere that a child, whose parents both smoke twenty a day, has inhaled the equivalent of eighty cigarettes worth of passive smoke in one year.’
- ‘There is little interest in classical communitarian living, and most of the eighty to ninety staff members now live off the site in conventional nuclear family units.’
- ‘Had about eighty or ninety people there, ready to laugh.’
- ‘The fish had probably taken some eighty or ninety yards of line in its first rush, then kited to my left.’
- ‘If they come to you and say, ‘we'll give you a million dollars for eighty percent of the company’ - then you don't have a company any more.’
- ‘I paid eighty dollars to go to a concert on my own.’
- ‘The New Zealand Government has announced a new Arts, Culture And Heritage package worth eighty million dollars.’
- ‘Apparently international crude oil prices continue to soar and are expected to hover around the eighty dollars a barrel mark.’
- ‘When we left the precinct the detective said they would reimburse us the eighty dollars.’
- ‘‘I had eighty dollars with me,’ she said practically in tears.’
- ‘In the early '80's, the few major studio releases available on videotape usually cost about eighty dollars.’
- ‘They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with.’
- ‘Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois.’
- ‘Per capita income is estimated to be less than eighty dollars a year.’
- ‘We kept walking, and ended up spending about eighty dollars on school stuff.’
- ‘Driving at eighty miles per hour wasn't something new for him.’
- ‘Travelling at the rate of over eighty miles per hour, all I could hear was thunderous air rushing pass my ears.’
- ‘The only reason anyone would work sixty or eighty hours a week would be to pay off a credit card or some similar emergency.’
- 1.1eightiesThe numbers from 80 to 89, especially the years of a century or of a person's life.‘his grandmother was in her eighties’
- ‘During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston.’
- ‘It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic.’
- ‘There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties.’
- ‘Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.’
- ‘Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years.’
- ‘Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way.’
- ‘A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties.’
- ‘The reunion has taken place regularly every two years and was initiated in the mid eighties.’
- ‘Sadie, who was in her eighties, was a lady with an outgoing and friendly personality.’
- ‘My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous.’
- ‘She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound.’
- ‘Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings.’
- ‘For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration.’
- ‘He was in his early eighties and spent most of his life abroad, but made regular visits home.’
- ‘I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties.’
- ‘How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties.’
- ‘In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry.’
- ‘The largest number of persons with dementia occurs in people in their early eighties.’
- ‘From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level.’
- ‘But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties.’
- 1.2Eighty years old.‘he was over eighty at the time’
- ‘Cartoon Art Classes take place every Saturday from 10 to 11.30 a.m. for ages eight to eighty.’
- ‘I found that he had died in 1988 at the age of eighty.’
- ‘He passed away in 1996, near the age of eighty, but was a strong, feisty man.’
- ‘Along the route, I spotted children as young as two on baby-seats on the back of their parents bikes as well as adults up to the age of eighty on their own.’
- ‘Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen’
- ‘At age eighty, he began to focus on a new challenge.’
- ‘Should I so decide to challenge my brain, The College caters for students; ages from twelve to eighty, so I would fit in there somewhere.’
- ‘A man of a guessable age of eighty sat at a desk stacked high with papers.’
- ‘He was a cross-country skier until the age of eighty.’
- ‘Bruce says he'll take anyone from the age of eight to eighty if they're keen.’
- ‘It may be time to require that a future pontiff who reaches the age of eighty be required to resign.’
- ‘At the age of eighty, she ventured into a new exercise of her faculties by writing a novel.’
- ‘At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night.’
- 1.3Eighty miles an hour.‘roaring down the highway doing eighty’
- ‘When we got in the jeep he sped about eighty down the highway.’
- ‘You should've seen her last night, driving at seventy miles per hour going on eighty, blasting rock music.’
- ‘He pushed the speed up to eighty on a forty mile road.’
- ‘She was going eighty, ninety; the adrenaline quickly taking over.’
- ‘She sped up, hitting eighty, then ninety, gaining distance the entire time.’
- ‘Eric's gut was burning as he scanned the ticket, registering the two hundred dollar fine for going eighty.’
Origin
Old English hunde(a)htatig, from hund (of uncertain origin) + e(a)hta ‘eight’ + -tig (see -ty); the first element was lost early in the Middle English period.
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