One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In sixteen eighty-one, King Charles the Second of England gave William Penn a large amount of land to establish a colony.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

A report from the e-Marketer research group predicts that worldwide,tablet sales will reach more than eighty-one million in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The campaign of eighteen eighty-four between Republican Blaine and Democrat Cleveland was one of the most bitter in American political history.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

One of the lasting effects of Norman Borlaug is the World Food Prize, which he established in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The DNA particles were designed so pieces next to each other contained eighty letters that overlapped, with one placed over the other.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

One cold January morning in nineteen eighty-eight, library workers found a small,almost frozen kitten in the book drop.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

By the end of eighteen eighty-one, the town of Tombstone had a population of more than five thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

It says tornadoes kill eighty people and injure one thousand five hundred others nationwide in an average year.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Since the demonstrations began in March, at least eighty-three people were killed and one thousand eight hundred wounded.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

It can also cause flooding. Wind speeds in a category two hurricane can reach close to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Last month,students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

She gave the shopkeeper twenty-one dollars and she hurried home with the eighty-seven cents that was left.

VOA: special.2010.12.25

But he flew one hundred eighty-seven kilometers high, and four hundred eighty kilometers from the launch pad.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Researchers estimated how many mothers died during or soon after childbirth in one hundred eighty-one countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

FM radio stations transmit in a range of frequencies between eighty-eight and one hundred eight megahertz.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

The study estimated mortality rates for people age fifteen to fifty-nine in one hundred eighty-seven countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In fifteen eighty-seven, more than one hundred people arrived from England to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A group of more than one hundred Englishmen had arrived two years earlier, in fifteen eighty-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

It was not until nineteen eighty-seven that Mister Reagan declared AIDS "public health enemy number one."

VOA: special.2011.06.15