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1916 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 79 139 This duplicate index [of Belgian refugees] has been coded according to the areas of residence in this country..each card in the duplicate index bears the area code number of the place at which the person resides.

1960 Public Health Rec. 75 2/1 [The fieldworker] records the services..according to the codes, all of which are on the front or back of the cards with the exception of the geographic area code.

2011 Amer. Econ. Rev. 101 2646 The sample data provide additional information about all segments in the universe data, including an urbanized area code for segments falling in urbanized areas.

1946 Washington Post 10 Mar. 7 s/6 A. T. & T. may divide the Nation into 60 or 70 areas designated by a code. If a call were made from Chicago to Market 2-2100 at Newark, N. J., the Chicago operator would determine that New Jersey's area code was, say, 312 and would dial 312 followed by the listed number.

1965 ‘E. McBain’ He who Hesitates ii. 42 He..dialled the area code for Carey, and then the number, Carey 7-3341.

1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 572 A childhood sweetheart whom he married a long time ago and kept salted away somewhere in area code 914.

1997 Indianapolis Star 20 July c3/2 He made a couple of mental errors today.., he wasn't in the same area code.

2008 S. Sullivan & D. Fisher Why don't Cats go Bald 6 If you have six or fewer cats you're probably okay—but more than six puts you in the same area code as the crazy cat lady.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 May (Travel section) 12/2 West Queen West has been overrun lately with 905ers, slang for out-of-towners with suburban area codes.