Example sentences of "about eight " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Libyan plane was about eight nautical miles from Italian air space when it was told by air traffic controllers in Malta that it could not fly over Italian territory , an Italian air force spokesman said . |
| 32 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 33 | About eight in ten pensioners have some sort of second income to top up their state pension . |
| 34 | Although this section of the wall was under constant surveillance by two warders , one of whom had to patrol the perimeter wall on foot taking about eight minutes , Blake was able to reach the foot of the wall unobserved where he found Bourke 's ladder , with which he made his escape , hanging over the wall . |
| 35 | Millend stood idle for about eight years until it eventually became the home of The Mechanical Malting Company , later The Automatic Malting Co , who remained there until 1931 . |
| 36 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 37 | However , I have never started seriously training dogs at a very early age ; I prefer to leave it until the puppy is about eight months old . |
| 38 | It is about eight inches in length and runs from the urinary bladder , through the prostate gland , under the front of the pelvis , and , passing through the corpus spongiosum , it ends at the tip of the glans penis in an opening called the urethral meatus . |
| 39 | After about eight weeks he was discharged home , although he was still confined to a wheelchair . |
| 40 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 41 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 42 | At the next ( 8th ) , a long par-4 , he hit a 4-iron second shot about eight feet from the hole . |
| 43 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 44 | In the presence of a growth factor the cells produced by the progenitor cell go through about eight cell divisions before differentiating into oligodendrocytes . |
| 45 | The oceanic crust , which forms the floor of all the deep oceans of the world , is much thinner , only about eight to ten kilometres thick , but since the oceans cover a much greater proportion of the Earth 's surface than the continents — the proportion is roughly three to one — they are quantitatively just as significant . |
| 46 | It was a room about eight to ten feet square , offering , as an estate agent with whom Henry was dealing had put it , ‘ a superb prospect of a ventilator shaft ’ . |
| 47 | ‘ About … about eight pounds . ’ |
| 48 | It is the second dairy breed of the country , strong in its constitution and sound in the feet , calving easily and with a gestation period about eight days shorter than that of the Friesian . |
| 49 | One by one I toss them into the slow current about eight feet from the roots . |
| 50 | Every year , about eight weeks before Christmas , we began to talk about laying down a ‘ brew ’ . |
| 51 | There was a good deal of quarrelling — an average of about eight fights , or potential fights , per hour . |
| 52 | By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel . |
| 53 | At either end of this , a heavy duty vice having jaws about eight or nine inches in length . |
| 54 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 55 | After a good breakfast at about eight o'clock , I informed the switchboard staff that I was leaving . |
| 56 | We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call . |
| 57 | The cost of the service is between £300 and £500 per day , during which the team can work through about eight to 10 specimens . |
| 58 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 59 | China has about eight factories that refine the ore . |
| 60 | Recent evidence , presented by Primrose of Searle shows that genetically-engineered cells can change their character in ways not completely understood after about eight days continuous growth . |