Example sentences of "[prep] the eighth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowles , in the final year of a three-year contract , decided to resign on Saturday after the team lost for the eighth time in 10 games . |
| 2 | Alain Poher , for the eighth time . |
| 3 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 4 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 5 | It proved to be a decisive victory for the Eighth Army and it was followed by further swift advances across northern Africa . |
| 6 | Deportivo Coruna stay top of the Spanish First Division for the eighth successive week after a 2–1 home win over Sporting Gijon . |
| 7 | BORIS BECKER yesterday beat John McEnroe for the eighth time in 10 meetings . |
| 8 | Richard Hannon fields two of the nine runners in the ‘ Heinz 57 ’ Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown and his Son Pardo can bring the prize back to England for the eighth time in nine years . |
| 9 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 10 | THORNHILL College , Londonderry , won the All-Ireland Senior Netball Title for the eighth time yesterday when they defeated Mount Anvil , Dublin , 30–20 at Shankill Leisure Centre . |
| 11 | China was now formulating a tentative 10-year plan , he said , and would present the outline for the eighth five-year plan ( 1991-95 ) to the party 's seventh plenum originally scheduled for September , but now likely to take place in December . |
| 12 | The proposed targets for the eighth five-year plan ( 1991-95 ) and the 10-year strategic development plan ( 1991-2000 ) , as adopted at the seventh plenum of the 13th Central Committee on Dec. 25-30 , 1990 [ see p. 37917 ] , were released on Jan. 28 . |
| 13 | On Nov. 5 , Yugoslav leaders met EC Foreign Ministers at The Hague for the eighth session of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia , chaired by Lord Carrington . |
| 14 | Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) met in Bishkek ( Kirgizstan ) on Oct. 9 for the eighth CIS summit , following preliminary meetings between Defence Ministers in Bishkek on Oct. 7 and Foreign Ministers in Moscow on Oct. 5 . |
| 15 | The Arab participants in the negotiations attended the Islamic Conference Organization Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Jeddah in late November where they discussed strategy for the eighth round . |
| 16 | Although Brown took two more wickets to make it 121 for seven , Rennie and chunky left-hander Steve Peall added 87 for the eighth wicket , with Peall successfully chancing his arm against the luckless Phil Berry . |
| 17 | Philip , a compulsive run-getter , returned to play for Scarborough in Perth , Western Australia for the eighth successive season and the Stenhousemuir batsman averaged almost 40 with the highlight being an innings of 125 . |
| 18 | She 's married for the eighth time is n't she ? |
| 19 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 20 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 21 | During the eighth century the Vikings invaded and eventually controlled the area , which is the origin of its present name , Sutherland , the Viking ‘ South Land ’ . |
| 22 | During the eighth and ninth Congresses held in March this year , this task looked all but impossible . |
| 23 | During the eighth and early ninth centuries the Vikings pillaged the coasts , sacking the monasteries of Lindisfarne and Iona . |
| 24 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 25 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 26 | 1718 ) , a member of the Drapers ' Company since 1686 , as the eighth of Perry 's sequence of eighteen apprentices . |
| 27 | And it is fairly clear that the slaves of northern Europe died out between the eighth and the twelfth centuries by absorption into the larger class of serfs or villeins , personally free , but tied to the soil , retaining certain symbols of unfreedom . |
| 28 | As a centre of culture , and a meeting place of civilizations , Cordoba remained vitally important through the days when the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born there in the twelfth century and the Arab philosopher Averroes lived there in the thirteenth ; as a representative of a medieval city it is as eccentric as Palermo — indeed far more so ; for the cathedral at its centre is a mosque slightly disguised ; and the beauty and immense and impressive size of the mosque are constant reminders to the modern visitor that Christendom was a poor relation to Islam , perhaps in many senses , in the period between the eighth and the tenth centuries when it was built . |
| 29 | The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh . |
| 30 | Later she shows how between the eighth and eleventh centuries , Byzantine silk weavers gradually absorbed Islamic weaving methods , colour combinations and motifs . |