Example sentences of "[was/were] eight " in BNC.
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| 31 | Here , in 1781 , there were eight hundred acres of heath and common out of 1,467 acres in the parish as a whole . |
| 32 | In some parts there were eight hundred persons living — if that is the word — on one acre of ground : one person to every six square yards . |
| 33 | There were eight no 's , would anybo , would any of the eight no 's like to explain why they do n't welcome advances ? |
| 34 | Daniel Donovan was with Mrs Dawson and her children , and there were eight other people near them . |
| 35 | But there were eight , nine , perhaps ten of them ! |
| 36 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 37 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 38 | On Monday , there were eight hours of concerts , all semi-finals . |
| 39 | " No : after all , there were eight of us . |
| 40 | There were eight charging zones in Severn Trent with difference p pence erm rateable values . |
| 41 | Erm they were eight speech samples |
| 42 | And then there were eight Hearthwares , seven of whom were in full armour . |
| 43 | Non-SERC students were eight times more likely than SERC students to be working as lecturers , mainly because of employer sponsorship . |
| 44 | The leaders , who were paid a small amount to compensate for their organizational work , recruited seven other team members ; there were eight such teams . |
| 45 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 46 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 47 | You were eight years old and I suppose it is to your mother 's credit that she wanted to spare you any court proceedings . |
| 48 | ‘ Oh , come , Neil , ’ said Matey , speaking to him as though he were eight again . |
| 49 | There were eight extra police officers this year , seven of them on patrol duties . |
| 50 | Richardson began one shot behind the three overnight leaders , New Zealander Frank Nobilo , Argentinian Jose Coceres and Stephen Bennett of Grimsby , who were eight under and all late starters today . |
| 51 | There were eight other minor candidates . |
| 52 | There were eight nominations for the post , but six withdrew before the voting , leaving a contest between Gorbachev and Temuraz Avaliani , municipal party first secretary in the Kuzbass mining town of Kiselevsk . |
| 53 | Eight accomplices were given lesser prison sentences as were eight others who were condemned in absentia . |
| 54 | Hachani was arrested on Jan. 22 , as were eight journalists of the Al-Khabar newspaper . |
| 55 | There were eight altogether . |
| 56 | In a leather purse hung on the handle of the loft door were eight bright shillings . |
| 57 | Analysis of SaO 2 data showed the number of patients exceeding the set criteria of hypoxia in the control and oxygen treated groups were eight and one respectively . |
| 58 | The median number of admissions was two , but in this group of patients , there were eight emergency admissions on account of complications , accountingfor the prolonged duration of stay ( median 13 ( range three to 24 ) days ) . |
| 59 | There were eight patients who had a previous subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for slow transit constipation who had developed recurrent difficulty with defaecation that necessitated large doses of laxatives to control secondary constipation . |
| 60 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |