Example sentences of "[was/were] eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were eight merciful miles from a holiday mecca . |
| 2 | There were eight women ( not enough in my opinion ; we are going to recruit more ) . |
| 3 | Where there were eight northern Grand Slammers , England 's first , 41-strong squad this season had only three — Dewi Morris , Wade Dooley and Bob Kimmins — from northern clubs . |
| 4 | THERE WERE eight of us who had voluntarily submitted ourselves for treatment at the clinic : two lawyers , two Italian businessmen , two bankers , a fashion designer and me . |
| 5 | There were eight altogether . |
| 6 | For their part , Congregationalists suffered from a glut of colleges : there were eight in England , three in Wales and one in Scotland . |
| 7 | This work was of course in addition to , and quite separate from , the long-established provision for trade unionists run in conjunction with the WETUC , which also enjoyed some expansion during the 1950s : in 1953–54 , for example , there were five residential weekend schools for trade unionists , in 1958–59 there were eight . |
| 8 | Around the time of Rudder 's comments , there were eight fulling mills at work within the parish . |
| 9 | Besides the dining-room , study and a small drawing-room , there were eight bedrooms . |
| 10 | By 1985 there were eight colleges and universities in the territories , and four UNRWA vocational training centres . |
| 11 | But there were eight in my family , so we could n't afford for me to be a pro — they did n't get paid ! |
| 12 | So that each material could appear in every version in the complete design , there were eight separate sequences . |
| 13 | what she did with her brother when they were eight , |
| 14 | For example , where in 1967 there were eight fully exempting awards for the profession as a whole , with one in building surveying , by 1978 there were sixty-one , five of which were in building surveying ; where in 1967 , 8639 candidates sat the Institution 's examinations in all divisions , in 1978 there were only 4991 . |
| 15 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 16 | There were eight women at the meeting that night , sitting hunched about the room and on the floor . |
| 17 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 18 | There were eight unshaded light bulbs distributed along the edges of the ceiling . |
| 19 | Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen . |
| 20 | By dawn they were eight miles off shore under fighter aircraft 's escort . |
| 21 | ‘ I was always being linked with other clubs and at one stage there were eight or nine players supposedly lining up to replace me . |
| 22 | Parts of it were eight hundred years old , the basements were half-filled with fine sand and whatever lived there , lived alone . |
| 23 | There were eight sports pages and the football results . |
| 24 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 25 | Cranes teeter among the ducks and swans ; there were eight wolves when your correspondent was there , and a collection of cats that had , as it were , just wandered in . |
| 26 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 27 | There were eight ladies to be accommodated . |
| 28 | ‘ When you came to us , love , you were eight years old and you never smiled , you never laughed , you hardly said anything . |
| 29 | Among the twenty-one Ordainers , there were eight earls , six barons and seven bishops ; naturally Winchelsey was one of the seven . |
| 30 | Though Minton did not begin until the class was all set up and working , the forcefulness of his example meant that at the end of the day there were eight Mintons instead of one . |