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HTML

<div id="foo">
    <span>
        <a href="#" class="no-want">X</a>
        &nbsp;
        1
    </span>
    <span>
        <a href="#" class="no-want">X</a>
        &nbsp;
        2
    </span>
    <span>
        <a href="#" class="no-want">X</a>
        &nbsp;
        Hello
    </span>
</div>

JavaScript

$('#foo span').each(function(){
    console.log($.trim($(this).html().substring($(this).html().lastIndexOf("&nbsp;") + 6)));
});