Example sentences of "eight [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it .
2 You divide that by a hundred and twenty , divide they cancel out so it 's so to make one tonne of N A C L you use fifty eight over a hundred and twenty then you just times that by erm hundred and twenty times by two .
3 Okay , so you can convert any per centage into a normal frac I mean you can leave this sort of fraction is no problem , like I say , erm , seventy eight per cent is a , seventy eight over a hundred , and normally you would n't have to bother cancelling them down because you 'd just go to use your calculator
4 just leave that at , seventy eight over a hundred , and then ?
5 just do seventy at the moment , just do seventy eight over a hundred .
6 Now what you did when you worked out seventy eight per cent , you say seventy eight over a hundred , and you put it in your calculator , and you did seventy eight divided by a hundred , and that gave you nought point seven eight .
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