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The aqueduct bringing in the water is full of the new dangerous chemicals: Eighty-Five of them.
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Eighty-Five days and it was tough, but they kept a lid on it.
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She rushed heedlessly down Eighty-Five Tunnel, hardly bothering to acknowledge the greetings of puzzled friends and acquaintances.
Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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She rushed heedlessly down Eighty-Five Tunnel, hardly bothering to acknowledge the greetings of puzzled friends and acquaintances.
Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Chapter Eighty-Five Four o'clock comes very early in the morning.
Roses are Red Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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Chapter Eighty-Five That night after he left the courthouse, Shafer was flying high.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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Chapter Eighty-Five That night after he left the courthouse, Shafer was flying high.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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There was a woven-wire fence around the structures, and a sign that said simply: _Project Eighty-Five_.
The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954
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As always, melody let Mr. McCartney put across musical and verbal non sequiturs few other songwriters could get away with: songs like "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five," with its sudden interlude of Beach Boys harmony, or "Let 'Em In," which switches from piano bounce to military tattoo, with whistling, and has lyrics that juxtapose Martin Luther and Phil and Don.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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New tour finds McCartney introducing a few oldies to the set: Wings 'circuitous "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" and the Beatles' trifle "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," plus "(I Want to) Come Home," the tune he wrote for the Robert De Niro-starrer "Everybody's Fine."
Variety.com 2010
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