eighty-three

• “The next day the bells of the abbey sounded once for every year the two slain monks were a part of the order -- a total of eighty-three times -- today they ring us back to mass and to sing the psalms throughout the day.”

  The Huffington Post: Tim Suttle: An Evangelical Goes To Mass

• “Abu Zubaydah was later “waterboarded” eighty-three times by the CIA.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• ““Shields down to eighty-three percent,” called out Rogeiro.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire

• “Quarry is nonchalant about the effect that Hoffmann's increasingly eccentric behavior might have on the firm's biggest investors: "At the end of the day, Hoffmann could swing naked from the rafters playing the ukulele . . . as long as he made them a return of eighty-three per cent.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Occupy Elm Street

• “Ninety-eight or eighty-three over infinity, it is almost not even a fraction.”

  The Huffington Post: Hannah Stephenson: Poem: Fraction

• “I can't think of anything that has more disturbed me in my eighty-three years as an American citizen than the current virulent attacks, both from the political right and left, on the incumbent president of the United States.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Brustein: Reviling Obama

• ““On the fourteenth of August, nineteen eighty-three,” Phil said.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Sins of Brother Curtis

• “There aren't, practically speaking, many new arguments left to be had in the science fiction community, after eighty-three years of existence.”

  MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other?

• “But this difference pales before the contrast between the Tea Party Caucus and its ostensible opposite number, the Progressive Caucus, some eighty-three members strong.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrew Levine: The Effectiveness Gap

• “First of all, stay away from my father who is eighty-three years old.”

  Wonk Room » Conservatives Fabricate ‘Mandatory’ End-Of-Life Consultations In House Bill

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