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eight

(ordinal eighth) The number eight is one more than seven and one less than nine. Most people work about eight hours a day.

eight

The number 8. Four and four is eight.

eight

being one more than seven the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face

Eight

(= Ashcan School) a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life

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Simple sentences

Liz has been dead for eight years.
I study from eight to eleven.
I leave home before eight o'clock every morning.
He is eight.
She usually sleeps for eight hours.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
It's half past eight.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand.
They haven't slept for forty-eight hours already.
Usually I get up at six, but today I got up at eight.
He's eight years old.
She's eight years old.
It doesn't start before eight thirty.
It won't start before eight-thirty.
It doesn't start until eight thirty.
Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.
As a rule, I go to school before eight o'clock.
It happened between eight and ten.
After eight months, he eventually started dating girls again.
This theory originated with a twenty-eight-year-old physicist.
The gate is closed at eight.
The actress made her debut when she was eight.
It took the doctor eight hours to do the operation.
School begins at eight-thirty.
Our school begins at eight.
We must sleep at least eight hours a day.
The car has three rows of seats and is capable of carrying eight passengers.
He goes to bed at eight o'clock.
The bell rings at eight.

Movie subtitles

A six, seven, eight.
For the first time in human history, we realised that our sun, with its eight major planets that go around it, is just one type of a planetary system, one example of billions.
They could send us a signal, in four years' time it would get here, and then we could reply eight years later to them.
As per Harry's calculation, that's one litre per hour for the first eight hours.
You have, like, eight.
All eight of them?
Eight to ten months. before your brother was born.
You know, I still had eight months.
In just eight days, our place was the worst it's ever been.
I assume you mean people of about age eight or younger?
Or have a mental age of eight.
It can't hurt the baby once you're about eight weeks, did you know that?
I have been taking cello lessons for. eight years and.
Aunt Fanny had an eight-pound boy.
What it means is that there's information which is beyond even our grasp, reaching as high as clearance level eight.
It's due to arrive in approximately eight hours.
We really only have eight hours?
The Council of Eight!
Listen to the Council of Eight!
Eight, eight, nine.
For eight dollars and six cents, are can make 15 gallons.
But the ambassador's coming at eight. You've got to be ready by then.
I'd say about eight or nine hours.
I think I'm good for another eight months, a year at the most.
I'll take a vacation, six weeks, eight weeks.
You're getting eight now and you're buying from Johnny Lovo.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
There are two - four - six - eight - ten.
A hundred and eight.
I think it's pretty obvious that Stiles has a crush on Lydia. He has since he was, like, eight.
Eight, seven, six, five, coming on behind.
You're all invited to the wedding of Aunt Fanny's eight-pound boy.
Now this is the eight-inch pipe.
He say seven, I say eight.
He say eight, I say nine.
Next he was matched up against Dopey Dwyer Again he dropped to his back in the first round but was saved by the bell at the count of eight.

News and current affairs

After eight years of international administration, Kosovo's Albanian majority has tasted freedom and is eager for full independence.
In all, there are eight nuclear-weapon states - the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan.
Three of the eight MDGs - reductions in children's deaths, maternal deaths, and epidemic diseases - focus directly on health.
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
He favors a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, and hopes to balance the budget over eight years.
Eight to ten million people will have to shift employment from services and construction into exports and import-competing goods, implying that structural unemployment will rise.
One in eight Americans depends on Food Stamps to eat.
America offered Iran on a silver platter strategic assets that Khomeini's revolution failed to acquire either in eight years of war against Saddam or in its abortive attempts to export the Islamic revolution throughout the region.
They have been working in a distributed collaboration for eight years and come from a range of countries and specialties.
Neither will end soon, mind you, perhaps not for another seven or eight months, if not longer.
By a vote of eight to three, the Court upheld his conviction on charges of racism.
It would last only eight months, like the two previous recessions of 1990-1991 and 2001, and the world would decouple from the US contraction.
JERUSALEM - The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister.
Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas-dependent country with diminishing reserves - equivalent to less than eight years of production.
Finally, even rational people have become more receptive to certain conspiracy theories because, in the last eight years, we actually have seen some sophisticated conspiracies.
The performers were a troupe of young African singers, drummers and dancers, ranging in age from roughly eight to 28.
The MDGs encompass eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators.
When eight European leaders published their appeal to heal the growing transatlantic rift, they were accused of undermining European unity.
With US President Barack Obama's eight years in office coming to an end, and Vice President Joe Biden unlikely to run, the race will be without an incumbent.
As a result, the election could be less a referendum on the last eight years than a contest of ideas, with foreign policy emerging as a key topic.
For starters, to avoid the kind of obstructionism that prevailed in the last eight years, the next president must engage Congress directly and actively.
And certainly the election of the first African-American as president would do wonders to restore the soft power that the Bush administration squandered over the past eight years.
It did not matter that these youthful hawkers, some no more than seven or eight years old, were often arrested, beaten, and locked up for weeks, occasionally months.
Of the 25 companies granted the most US patents in 2006, only eight were American; 12 were Japanese.
Even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was probably more than a little surprised by Rowhani's first-round victory, following a campaign that began with eight candidates.
Indeed, the regime has hinted that it may be willing to compromise on the issue - the delineation of the 1967 border along a tiny piece of land on the Eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee - that wrecked the negotiations eight years ago.
In the last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks eight years ago, it was clear that a deal with Syria would automatically pave the way to a settlement with Lebanon, and an end to Hezbollah's threat to Israel's northern border.
It also announced an end to its eight-year-old Indian Ocean refueling mission in support of the US-led war in Afghanistan.

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