mid-eighties

• “That whole "Blackened Red Snapper" business that started in the mid-eighties pretty much wiped out the population, which is now coming back, thanks in no small part to Chefs 'Collaborative.”

  Cuisine From The Costa Blanca

• “But it's pretty clear that readership of comics has been declining for some time ... since about 1945, really, but precipitously since the mid-eighties or so.”

  Michael Chabon discusses his life-long interest in comic books which inspired him to write The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

• “I looked cautiously through the part in the curtains and saw a woman who had to be somewhere in her mid-eighties.”

  Fictionaut: Powdered Sugar on Bare Skin

• “His helper, herself in her mid-eighties and therefore barely younger than the serious writer himself, reminds him to throw in the yellow pill “every hour on the hour, if you please.””

  Fictionaut: The Serious Writer Occupies Wall Street

• “However, by the mid-eighties, I switched to the Democratic Party.”

  More Moderate vs. Conservative GOP battles ahead

• “May 4, 2010, 2: 07 pm neurodoc says: svi: In the mid-eighties things relaxed considerably.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » 4. On a Bus in Kiev

• “We wish the previous owner could but he had to pay back the main financial backer he had in the mid-eighties when he saved and truely restored the hotel.”

  It's the water (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “In the mid-eighties Yates's former acquaintances would sometimes see a gaunt, stupefied, ragged old man staggering around the streets of Boston; an incredulous second look would confirm that he wretch was none other than Richard Yates.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “I read the book in the mid-eighties and had no idea how they were going to make it into a movie.”

  Catcher in the Rye, catchers in the cornfields

• “Up through the mid-eighties, upper class and working class divorce rates rose and fell together.”

  The Huffington Post: June Carbone: The Class Warrior of the 1%

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