Example sentences of "eight days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 2 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 3 | The Anschluss of Austria , the occupation of the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia and , following the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact of August 1939 , the invasion of Poland eight days later led to the second world war , the death of scores of millions and , on May 7 , 1945 , unconditional German surrender to the Allies . |
| 4 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 5 | There was a further letter eight days later . |
| 6 | But oil traders said there would be no immediate impact as there were storage facilities with at least eight days supply at both ends of the pipeline system . |
| 7 | The car of shop assistant Miss Ruth Stevens , aged 33 , who disappeared eight days ago in Warminster , Wiltshire , was found in Islington , north London . |
| 8 | However , ‘ macho travelling ’ is to be avoided — one need not travel eight days in the toilet of a train to sample ‘ real life . ’ |
| 9 | And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you , every male throughout your generations , he that is born in thy house , or bought with the money of any foreigner , that is not of thy seed … |
| 10 | You can see that in January this person weighed 9 st 8 lb ( 60.8 kg ) for eight days , 9 st 7 lb ( 60.3 kg ) for twelve days , 9 st 6 lb ( 59.9 kg ) for five days , 9 st 5 lb ( 59.4 kg ) for five days , and 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) just once . |
| 11 | His highest weighted opponent was the 1929 Preakness winner Dr Freeland with eight stone eight pounds , but the horse most fancied to give him a true test in his first race outside Australia was Spanish Play , who had won the New Orleans Handicap eight days before . |
| 12 | Mr Reid , who is prevented from taking part in one of the highlights of his season by the excellent displays on Saturday of Steve McMahon and Fitzroy Simpson in central midfield , knows that victories over the top three teams in the space of eight days — City travel to Hillsborough on Saturday — will raise hopes of his men claiming third place . |
| 13 | Mrs Megan Quaile , 79 , who tripped and fractured her hip , came home after eight days and is ‘ feeling fine ’ . |
| 14 | Patients leave the local hospital on average eight days after the fracture and spend nine days in the ‘ hospital at home ’ . |
| 15 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 16 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 17 | With only eight days to go until the opening of Seville 's World Fair , workmen are putting the finishing touches to the site . |
| 18 | Sheffield Utd2 Tottenham0 TOTTENHAM 'S hopes of completing a hat-trick of away wins in eight days were dashed when two first-half goals from Brian Deane sealed Sheffield United 's first double over the North London side for 54 years . |
| 19 | Boro fans seem to sense as much , with only 12,000 on hand to see the first of their team 's four games in eight days on Monday . |
| 20 | We could go for eight days between fill-ups instead of having to brim the tank every four days , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The FA , faced with fixture congestion with a gap of eight days between each match , reluctantly agreed that Cup ties would be decided by penalties after one replay . |
| 22 | He , along with others , was captured in France , held for eight days , and then shot . |
| 23 | He was in Heymouth for another eight days and … |
| 24 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 25 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 26 | Eight days after leaving , the new convoy was back at the desert rendezvous , much to the relief of those who had been chosen to stay behind . |
| 27 | Yes , you were right , Mr Greene , and there are another eight days until we reach the ‘ Bend in the River ’ and the centre of the African equatorial rain forest . |
| 28 | Tom came over eight days before the 1973 British Open started and he played his first two practice rounds with that great Australian golfer Bruce Crampton . |
| 29 | There were ten further performances over the next eight days . |
| 30 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |