Example sentences of "[coord] eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the six ( or eight ) who carry out his instructions . |
| 2 | Some doctors like to fit an IUD soon after delivery ; others prefer to wait until six or eight weeks after the baby has been born . |
| 3 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 4 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight . |
| 5 | A crowd of about seven or eight youths on their way out of a Chinese carryout were in high spirits . |
| 6 | Someone mentioned the 51st Highland Division and the part of the Front they were dug in , which appeared to be fairly close to our area , probably about seven or eight miles from here . |
| 7 | out of the seven or eight records played in each Radio I half-hour , four or five will be from the playlist . |
| 8 | potentially these options tie the artist to the record company for up to seven or eight years . |
| 9 | Just as my son entered our room I could see them , seven or eight hefty white boys entering through the door downstairs . |
| 10 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 11 | The Parcours is monstrous , the size of a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur with room for seven or eight , powered along in executive comfort by a Mercedes-Benz 32-valve V8 . |
| 12 | Seven or eight years later , by the time he preached his remarkable sermon ‘ The Weight of Glory ’ C. S. Lewis clearly had a full belief in the Eucharistic Presence , or there would be no force in the rhetoric of his ‘ Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself , your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses . ’ |
| 13 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 14 | He found the club welcoming , helped by the fact that it was a path south previously trodden by another Leicester stalwart , Les Cusworth , whom Liley remembers watching as a lad of seven or eight at Wakefield . |
| 15 | ‘ People did n't believe I could go beyond seven or eight rounds without blowing out , ’ said Mason . |
| 16 | ‘ People did n't believe I could go beyond seven or eight rounds without blowing out , ’ said Mason . |
| 17 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 18 | Those who work less than 16 hours per week ( or eight hours after five years with one employer ) also lose employment rights such as maternity leave , unfair dismissal protection and redundancy payments . |
| 19 | COOK 'S NOTE : This is a marvellous starter , divided between six or eight people and served with very fine bird's-nest or capellini pasta . |
| 20 | Of the seven or eight countries that secretly have nuclear weapons , or are close to having them , only one ( India ) started building a bomb because it was worried about one of the big five ( China ) . |
| 21 | Simon was seven or eight feet below them , immobilized in mud . |
| 22 | She will play when she is relaxed , but although she is now seven or eight years old , she still has the exaggerated movements of a young puppy . |
| 23 | Horses ' feet need to be trimmed , preferably by a farrier , every six or eight weeks . |
| 24 | The horse 's anxiety has to be kept below boiling point to avoid a continual problem in the same circumstances ; and shoeing horses does recur — every six or eight weeks ! |
| 25 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |
| 26 | Beyond the seven or eight tents and caravans , the camp ponies grazed , all piebald or skewbald with vivid white patches . |
| 27 | However , an elaborate Baroque-style stone basin has been constructed , seven or eight yards in diameter , through which the stream flows . |
| 28 | He refused to say whether seven or eight voting slips had been handed to him , and said they were all destroyed soon after . |
| 29 | He refused to say whether seven or eight voting slips had been handed to him , and said they were all destroyed soon after . |
| 30 | From the age of about seven or eight , children , particularly girls , tend to form inseparable friendships . |