The word '88' is not considered a word in written English.
It is typically used as a numeral or symbol, and is not an accepted English word with its own definition. Example: I drove 88 miles to get to the concert. (In this sentence, '88' is used as a numeral to indicate distance.).
These events – G20, Commonwealth Games, Expo 88 – are too often used as excuses for cultural events to be gathered around them.
His 47 goals in 88 games for the national team until 2006 made him the top Portugal goalscorer until Cristiano Ronaldo blew away that record with 49 goals in 109 matches.
Gyula Grosics, the goalkeeper of Hungary's Golden Team of the 1950s, has died at the age of 88.
A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
A review of 88 studies investigating the effects of corporal punishment concluded that although punishing children physically often leads to immediate compliance with parental demands, this "good behaviour" was rarely maintained in the long term as children failed to internalise moral norms and social rules.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.02pm AEST02:02 No 88 and it's Josh Pyke's Leeward Side.
According to the accountancy firm Moore Stephens around 88,817 mortgages were lent at 4.5 times salary or abovelast year.
On Wednesday, for instance, he received 88,706 shares worth £55,000 after selling a similar amount to satisfy his tax bill.
The alleged gang leader, 88-year-old Aloísio Soares Guimarães, was reportedly found with statements for $5m in a Swiss bank account.
In last June's European election the DUP's post-Paisley candidate limped in in third place with 88,346 votes, a fall from 32% in the last Euro-contest to 18.2% this year.
Gone also, apparently, are discussions about cutting fossil fuel subsidies that have featured at previous G20 meetings (a new report finds G20 countries are subsidizing exploration for coal, oil and gas to the tune of US$88 billion a year – between $2.9 billion and $3.5 billion from Australia).
