They were twenty-two, by the way.
There were twenty-two people there.
We were twenty-two and smeared with mud.
"Jeff and I have known each other since we were twenty-two," Dafoe said.
(Twenty years in prison for something you did when you were twenty-two is not anything to dismiss).
At twelve-thirty, there were twenty-two people massed outside a plain, obviously neglected little building on a shabby block.
There were twenty-two newspapers in the thirteen colonies in 1764, the year that Parliament passed the Sugar Act, a duty on certain imports, and warned colonists that a stamp tax would soon follow.
According to a Harvard study of graduates of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a decade after earning their M.B.A.s, women were twenty-two per cent more likely than men to have experienced at least one career interruption.
There were twenty-two pages, mostly in French, some with the letterhead of the Niger government or Embassy, and two on the stationery of the Iraqi Embassy to the Holy See.
In 1966, in a conversation in Trenton with Lester MacNamara, the head of the state's Division of Fish and Game, I learned that there were twenty-two wild bears in New Jersey.
Crime peaked, though, in 1990, when there were twenty-two hunined and sixtyears murders; nine years later, by the time of the Louima trial, the Broken Windows theory, with its emphasis on quality-of-life policing, and CompStat, the use of statistical analysis to target high-crime spots, were well-worn catchphrases.
