mid-eighties
- n the time of life between 80 and 90
- She had come to Wall Street in the mid-eighties, when the junk-bond boom spawned a new class of globe-trotting financiers.
- Mother preferred Smith, but now she's in her mid-eighties and doesn't care any more.
- If Widmore doesn't get off Island until the mid-eighties (according to Miles' non-specific reference to 20 years), Penny had to have been born on Island or it wouldn't make sense.