Example sentences of "about eight " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 2 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 3 | By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors . |
| 4 | The museum believes that the fundraising will take about eight months . |
| 5 | But there is a real Belle-Ile in the Atlantic about eight miles off the coast of southern Brittany : a mysterious , beautiful , isolated island shaped like a fish swimming north-west , edged with black cliffs and coves of pale-brown sugar-sand . |
| 6 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 7 | This is a paperback edition of a book that first appeared about eight years ago , and it tells the story of 617 Sqn after the dams raid had taken place . |
| 8 | Not too far is about eight kilometres , a distance that takes us well over an hour , although time is irrelevant . |
| 9 | There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres . |
| 10 | Figure 3.1 shows that if we go to bed at the ‘ normal ’ time we sleep about eight hours , a result that most of us would accept as part of our daily experience . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a Chieftain auxiliary generator about eight miles down Bayonet Trail , ’ he briefs his crew . |
| 12 | But his first major prose work — The Allegory of Love — took about eight years to complete . |
| 13 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 14 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 23.89 points to 2752.13 , with advancing issues leading declines by about eight to seven . |
| 15 | IMANAGE to do it about eight times a year . |
| 16 | There were about eight US citizens in our group . |
| 17 | Close by the canal were two armoured personnel carriers and about eight US military policemen . |
| 18 | The heights of the plants vary from about eight to 20cm , so they wo n't make as neat an edging as the single-coloured varieties — but they are attractive gap fillers or ground cover . |
| 19 | The tour was originally booked , I think , for about eight cities starting in Cleveland , then Memphis , then New York . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 21 | I usually allow about eight mouthfuls per person for catering . |
| 22 | At a cost of one hundred and fifty thousand zlotys , about eight pounds , I buy Elena and Barbara a bottle of ‘ champagne ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Jane , ‘ they do only live about eight years , you know . ’ |
| 24 | He brings me a cup of tea about eight . |
| 25 | Only about eight miles from Lille . |
| 26 | I do n't like leaving her on her own too long ( I usually have to be away for about eight hours ) . |
| 27 | Come for us about eight o'clock . ’ |
| 28 | The plank on the table was about eight inches across . |
| 29 | The first part was splendid , since on the west side the Forest rises steeply to about eight hundred metres before the high plateau slopes gradually down to the Danube basin . |
| 30 | The spectre of drought looms over Bangladesh 's northern districts , with farmers and agriculture officials giving warning that thousands of acres of rice paddy in about eight north and western districts — the granary of the country — will be ruined . |