(n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
(2) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(3) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
(4) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(5) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
(6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(7) Eighty percent of subjects with significant asymmetry of muscle action had recent LBP history.
(8) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(10) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(11) Eighty bovine fetuses with presumed protozoal infections from a previous 2-year retrospective study were examined by immunohistochemistry using antisera against Neospora caninum.
(12) Eighty percent of the cows were infused with nine different antibiotic preparations separately at drying off, and 20% served as controls.
(13) Eighty-eight patients with 188 sacral fractures were examined with computed tomography (CT) and conventional radiography.
(14) Eighty adults between the ages of 20 and 78 described three pictures.
(15) Eighty-six hearing-impaired ears of 44 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss formed the patient group.
(16) Eighty-five percent of the exposed animals survived in room air.
(17) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.
(18) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(19) Eighty-seven patients (54.7%) who presented ocular lesions suggestive of sarcoidosis as an initial manifestation were diagnosed after a systemic survey.
(20) Eighty-one patients (80%) had a good or excellent result, 15 patients (14%) were rated fair, and 6 patients (6%) were rated poor.
Weighty
Definition:
(superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
(superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
(superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is appropriate that AIDS be responded to as a crisis, but we also have a weighty, preexisting set of long-standing and equally lethal health and social ills.
(2) Weighty stuff, but critics hailed the show as the neurotic standup’s best in years.
(3) They imply that it is a matter of weighty regret that things have now reached a pass where their only conscionable option is to declare "thus far and no further".
(4) 4S, 5S, AND 18S + 28S RNA from the newt Taricha granulosa granulosa were iodinated in vitro with carrier-free 125I and hybridized to the denatured chromosomes of Taricha granulosa and Batrachoseps weighti.
(5) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
(6) Little ones might freak out a bit at the wax characters and the gloomy dark but this is a fun way to bring a fairly weighty school text to life.
(7) In contrast, D changed from left weightiness to symmetry, coinciding with improvement but not with deterioration, With reference to the latter findings we discuss the possibility of a particular mode of cerebral lateralization predisposing to endogenous depression.
(8) The DPA is a weighty US drug policy reform NGO that can boast tycoons such as George Soros and Richard Branson and celebrities including Sting on its board of directors.
(9) Then there were the imported dramas broadcast because they were weighty, such as 1984's Heimat , an enthralling dramatisation of ordinary lives in 20th-century Germany.
(10) At the time of his resignation he had far more weighty matters filling his in-tray than the NRB case, not least a probe into alleged corruption among some of Boris Yeltsin's close relatives.
(11) Brennan bridles at that, saying it would be "a very weighty decision in terms of declassifying that report."
(12) In the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde the last-mentioned aspect appears to have been very weighty, especially in the beginning.
(13) Weighty, expensive impact reports sit hidden deep within websites (or worse, annual reports), while the public remains oblivious to what happens to donations.
(14) They're running almost entirely on biscuits and cans of Red Bull, kept awake by a mix of jokes, weighty debate, and general good humour.
(15) It's an extra nerdy and intelligent version too, with tactical jedi Jonathan Wilson and his young apprentic Zonal Marking's Michael Cox there to provide the yuks and giggles as myself and James Richardson analyse the weighty football issues of the day to within an inch of their lives.
(16) The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic party; and the lion of the US Senate – a man whose name graces nearly one thousand laws, and who penned more than 300 himself.
(17) It was the world of John Smith, razor-sharp debating, forensic examination of weighty issues and Gaitskellite intrigues.
(18) A comparison between the activity of the two hands yielded a pronounced left-weightiness of object-focused, continuous body-focused and discrete body-focused movements in contrast to findings on normal persons.
(19) The chancellor demanded that officials develop weighty evidence about whether or not the new 50p rate was working.
(20) The science report is the first of three major IPCC reports this year; similarly weighty analysis of the impact and possible solutions will follow in April and May respectively.