mideighties

In the first hour he had sat in the room, only two women had shown up, regular parishioners, both in their mideighties, whose sins, if any had ever existed, were long behind them.

'I'll Walk Alone' 2011

In the first hour he had sat in the room, only two women had shown up, regular parishioners, both in their mideighties, whose sins, if any had ever existed, were long behind them.

I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011

“Yeah … back in the mideighties … after four of their diplomats were kidnapped.”

American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

It is often true of the oldest parents, those in their mideighties and older, who have educated, professional children who are themselves pressured by the expenses and time demands of their lives.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

In the mideighties, Vietnam casualties joined the mix.

Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010

Farther along on our walk we see a family together, the daughter in her sixties pushing the wheelchair of her father, who looks to be in his mideighties.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

And when Christian artists tried to dirty themselves up, it was often painful to watch, such as when the hair metal band Stryper came around in the mideighties their name, they said, was an acronym for “Salvation Through Redemption Yielding Peace Encouragement and Righteousness”.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

The average age of residents is the mideighties, and their average net worth is at the upper reaches of the wealth pyramid.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

It lacks the spark and imagination of, say, his mideighties courtroom performances, when he was on trial and eventually acquitted for profiting off state hospital contracts.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

In the mideighties the notes began to be almost exclusively about issues: capital punishment, rich and poor, abortion, government corruption, official euphemisms, the crimes of those business suits I sat next to on planes.

Last Words George Carlin 2009