eighty-five
八五,八十五,八五之尊,第八十五
Definitions
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- : a cardinal number, 80 plus 5.
- : a symbol for this number, as 85 or LXXXV.
- : a set of this many persons or things.
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- : amounting to 85 in number.
Examples
“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.