Example sentences of "in eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 2 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 3 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 4 | The 2in ( 50mm ) slatting has 180 pin-fine holes to the square inch and is available in eight colours : black , white , red , grey , eggshell , flint , pink , and marine blue . |
| 5 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 6 | In eight years , such optimists claim , China will be adjusting to Hong Kong , rather than vice versa . |
| 7 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 8 | There is now full time working at all the operational distilleries for the first time in eight years . |
| 9 | Their South Molton cottage ( guide price £44,000-£46,000 ) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services , and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period . |
| 10 | The popular ‘ Form and Colour ’ range comes in eight colours and four shapes - round , square , oblong and Lotus ( six scalloped-edged petals ) . |
| 11 | The road angled towards the rim of the valley , climbing 2,000 feet in eight relentless miles . |
| 12 | In eight years Britain has moved from a current account surplus of 2.5 per cent of GDP to a deficit of 4 per cent of GDP . |
| 13 | He was also general editor of an important series of pamphlets , ‘ Writers and Their Works ’ , each containing an essay on an author and an extended checklist of his or her work ( those for John Webster and AE Housman he wrote himself ) ; Scribner 's , the New York publishers , later collected these in eight volumes . |
| 14 | In eight subjects , poly unemployment rates had risen while university rates had fallen ; the reverse was true in only three subjects . |
| 15 | Castleford rallied quickly however , and a third try in eight minutes arrived after a mistake under a high kick by Chris Bibb . |
| 16 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 17 | In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out . |
| 18 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 19 | Checkpoint Cheltenham is only one of a mound of proposals on marketing director Brian Larcher 's desk , of which perhaps one in eight will get built . |
| 20 | Two goals in eight minutes from their record signing , Keith Edwards , secured a 3-1 win . |
| 21 | Published simultaneously in eight European languages ( as part of a European initiative backed by Frederique Delouche , a banker ) , it is clearly intended to serve a purpose . |
| 22 | They cite Germany 's Abitur , where school-leavers are graded in eight subjects , and where their grading wins them entry into an apprenticeship if they do not go to university . |
| 23 | Equally remarkable , Mr Welch has won his kudos not by turning around a firm in trouble but by matching the performance of his predecessor , Reginald Jones , who doubled sales and tripled profits in eight years . |
| 24 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 25 | This view would seem to be supported by the Sunday census of March 1851 , when it was found that in London only 37% of the inhabitants attended any form of divine service , whilst in eight other cities with populations in excess of 100,000 the figure was only 42% . |
| 26 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |
| 27 | In those forty minutes Kylie packed in eight songs and no less than four costume changes . |
| 28 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 29 | Conversely , he was five over for the par-fives and did not have one birdie in eight attempts . |
| 30 | They also won 24–9 in last season 's cup final and Pontypool , despite the return after a 10-week suspension of Dean Oswald , their Kiwi No 8 , are unlikely to record their first win in eight meetings between the clubs . |