About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide. |
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The Welsh League XIII was made up of players from all six teams, but the majority came from Merthyr, who supplied eight of the thirteen players. |
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Despite this, helmet usage rates in North America are estimated to be between eight and twenty percent. |
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Of the eight tournaments that have been held, all but one have been won by a national team from the southern hemisphere. |
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Led by Methusalem Jones, eight Cilgwyn men formed a partnership and took a lease on Gelli Farm where they established their quarry. |
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The bottom eight teams in League 1 at the end of the regular season compete for the League 1 Shield. |
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Over the next 150 years, there were 11 more Acts of Parliament and eight commissions of enquiry on the subject. |
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One of the two Jagdgeschwader fighter wings, JG 2, lost 14 Fw 190s and eight pilots killed. |
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Seven of the top eight largest countries by area are governed as federations. |
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The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. |
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The size of the Army in Britain was to be reduced from eight divisions to four, freeing about 40,000 men for service in France. |
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The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the prix Cuvier, and elected him one of its eight foreign members in succession to Michael Faraday. |
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These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine. |
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Between August 2008 and his departure from the Premier League, he was booked eight times for simulation. |
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In Taiwan, the central bank on September 16, 2008, said it would cut its required reserve ratios for the first time in eight years. |
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He continued to work on the idea for the remaining eight years of his life. |
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Of all European patent applications in the field of physics and electronics about eight per cent is from North Brabant. |
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After just eight months, the colony was abandoned in July 1699, except for six men who were too weak to move. |
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Mary J. Blige got eight Grammy nominations to Justin Timberlake's four and didn't even have to flash any silver-plated nippage. |
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Previous to the Union of 1707 there were eight total officers of state, four great officers and four lesser officers. |
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With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, Lennox has won more than any other female artist. |
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At times up to eight or nine lighters would be loading at the jetty with cargo for Melbourne, as well as a steamer. |
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However, there is a movement on the World Curling Tour to make the games only eight ends. |
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This resulted in Lloyd George's defeat in Cabinet and the adoption of estimates including provision for eight dreadnoughts. |
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As part of this interest he bought shares in eight of the mines to help provide capital. |
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An apparatus was installed in the belfry in 1877 so that all eight bells could be chimed by one person. |
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In 2003 Ring Magazine named Fitzsimmons number eight of all time among boxing's best punchers. |
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By the early 1900s Llantrisant had eight chapels, as well as the Llantrisant Parish Church Only two religious buildings remain. |
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It is pierced by eight light wells just below the lantern, but these are barely visible. |
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The new Parker Pen Shield saw 32 teams divided into eight groups of four competing for the title. |
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Today, the Nigerian Methodist Church has a prelate, eight archbishops and 44 bishops. |
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The Conservative Presbyterian Church was founded in 1940 and has eight presbyteries. |
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In addition, pupils usually elect to continue with other subjects and many study for eight or nine GCSEs but possibly up to ten or eleven. |
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The Man with the Golden Gun was published eight months after Fleming's death and had not been through the full editing process by Fleming. |
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Before the match with Wales, New Zealand were to face eight club teams over six games. |
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In auto racing, three Brazilian drivers have won the Formula One world championship eight times. |
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The royal burgh was then absorbed into a new district of Inverness, which was one of eight districts within the Highland region. |
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The wall was abandoned only eight years after completion, and the garrisons relocated back to Hadrian's Wall. |
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There were eight principal areas used by Europeans to buy and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere. |
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However, the murder victims were primarily female, while the eight surviving figures are male. |
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Their final group stage game was against the West Indies, where they lost by eight wickets. |
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The corporation board consisted of eight members including a chairman and deputy chairman. |
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On 17 May three battalions of regulars and eight Highland companies reoccupied Fort Augustus. |
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In 2015 Italian Air Force Typhoons were deployed for about eight months in Siaulai base in northern Lithuania during the Baltic Frontier mission. |
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Aside from her eight Brit Awards, she has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. |
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It reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and number 19 on the US Top Electronic Albums. |
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The DUP is the largest party in Northern Ireland, holding eight seats at Westminster and 28 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. |
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An end is complete when all eight rocks from each team have been delivered, a total of sixteen stones. |
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It was also initially intended to increase Bridge Street station to eight through lines and to increase Central station to 13 platforms. |
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The Queen appoints a Lord Lieutenant to represent her in the eight Preserved counties of Wales, which are combinations of council areas. |
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Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or at least indirectly in the Spanish Revolution. |
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This figure is two and a half times higher than that of platinum, eight times more than mercury, and seventeen times more than gold. |
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Some scholars recommend voting districts of roughly four to eight seats, which are considered small relative to PR systems in general. |
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Bangor City have also won the Welsh Cup eight times, most recently in the 2010 competition. |
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Highlights of eight games of each round were broadcast as catch up on ITV Local. |
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Coach Duncan Fletcher resigned after eight years in the job as a result and was succeeded by former Sussex coach Peter Moores. |
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They lost eight seats in Belfast and County Antrim, where the issue of the border had far less resonance. |
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The genus Oncorhynchus contains eight species which occur naturally only in the North Pacific. |
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There are eight marginal inscriptions written in Latin and Old Welsh, which are some of the earliest extant written Welsh. |
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The present choir consist of up to 30 boy choristers, eight probationers and the Vicars Choral, 12 professional singers, historically men. |
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Calls for Head Coach Dai Young to be removed intensified between November and January when the team went eight games without recording a victory. |
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The following year's competition had an increased entry with eight groups of four teams. |
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It takes six or eight years to get educated in one's art, and another ten to get rid of that education. |
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In 2009, South Africa cancelled all eight aircraft, citing increasing costs. |
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Big Oil is a name used to describe the world's seven or eight largest publicly owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors. |
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Traditional grammarians tried to group the various suffixes into eight cases corresponding to the cases used in Sanskrit. |
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From 1952 to 1954, Hill rowed in twenty finals with London, usually as stroke of the crew, eight of which resulted in wins. |
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Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago, the term Oxbridge is relatively recent. |
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With his debts and political difficulties, the marriage may have been troubled, but it lasted 50 years and produced eight children. |
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Taking eight wins and never qualifying off the front row, Hill enjoyed by far his most successful season. |
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On the first concert in Canada, they performed to an audience of 15,000 people, singing twenty songs and changing a total of eight times. |
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Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London included six events for women compared with eight for men. |
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With the permitted circumference between seven and a half and eight inches and weight between two and a half and three ounces. |
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The municipality of Tijuana is divided into eight administrative boroughs, or Delegaciones. |
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In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs and with eight wickets in hand. |
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The Irish Air Corps is the air component of the Defence Forces and operates sixteen fixed wing aircraft and eight helicopters. |
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He started sailing at the age of eight and first competed at the age of ten. |
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The region consisted of eight districts, of which one was called Inverness. |
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The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship, which they have won twelve times outright and shared eight times. |
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Norway has been ranked the highest twelve times, Canada eight times, followed by Japan which has been ranked highest three times. |
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The team had won the competition eight times, taking the title outright on three occasions. |
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Esquivel said only eight percent of colleges provide a liberal education to four percent of students in the United States. |
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The United States has hosted eight Olympic Games, four Summer and four Winter, more than any other nation. |
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Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 at his house in Leicester Fields in London between eight and nine in the evening. |
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The European pine marten has lived to 18 years in captivity, but in the wild a lifespan of eight to ten years is more typical. |
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As of 1998, the division Pinophyta was estimated to contain eight families, 68 genera, and 629 living species. |
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Seriously ill from AIDS at the time, Charleson died eight weeks after his last performance. |
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The United States won eight gold medals, including all six men's events, and 15 medals in total. |
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Of the eight Scottish banks, Clydesdale had been the third largest by deposits, the North being the smallest. |
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There are over 60 recycling points located throughout Moray in addition to eight larger recycling centres. |
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In chapter eight of this book I wrote that I was uncertain about whether they were lovers. |
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By July, the Jacobites had eight battalions and two companies, almost all Highlanders. |
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In England, 1 piece of eight was worth 4s 3d while it was worth 8s in New York, 7s 6d in Pennsylvania and 6s 8d in Virginia. |
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Spanish pieces of eight minted in Mexico or Seville were the standard trade currency in the American colonies. |
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About eight million men surrendered and were held in POW camps during the war. |
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Hannah was released from the asylum eight months later, but in March 1905, her illness returned, this time permanently. |
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The Presidencies and the first eight provinces were each under a Governor, while the latter six provinces were each under a Chief Commissioner. |
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The A330 and previous iterations of the A350 would only be able to accommodate a maximum of eight seats per row. |
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Most tournaments on that tour are eight ends, as are the vast majority of recreational games. |
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Architectural sculptor John Thomas contributed eight allegorical statues representing the cities served by the line. |
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The Western Task Force included the battleships Arkansas, Nevada, and Texas, plus eight cruisers, 28 destroyers, and one monitor. |
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The armies took up battle positions daily and viewed each other from a mile without any major action for eight days. |
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The draft bill contained two proposals, one for eight local authorities and one for nine local authorities. |
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Anarchist historian Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or indirectly in the Spanish Revolution. |
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The Queen appoints Lords Lieutenant to represent her in the eight preserved counties of Wales. |
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Summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens. |
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They consist of a carillon of eight bells operated by hand and are still in use today. |
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Plumer declined the suggestion, as eight fresh German divisions were behind the battlefield, with another six beyond them. |
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It will feature 42 navy blue gondolas that can hold up to eight adults and two kids. |
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During the 1990s, with Michael Jordan leading them, the Bulls won six NBA championships in eight seasons. |
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In 1950, four teams remained after the first round, in 1958 eight teams remained and in 2014 sixteen teams remained. |
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They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark, and in eight days time they are as well as before the illness. |
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Between Eccles and Pole Moor, 67 motorway crossings were required, including seven viaducts and eight junctions. |
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The national team is one of eight national teams to have won at least one FIFA World Cup title. |
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A minimum of six of the eight seat IFAB board needs to vote to accept a rule change. |
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The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liverpool. |
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In the last 16 World Cup tournaments, Germany has always reached at least the stage of the last eight teams. |
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Most species hunt for three to five hours each day and nursing mothers up to eight hours each day. |
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Internationally Super League is shown live by eight different broadcasters in eight different countries and regions. |
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He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of John Keats and Shelley. |
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Liverpool has won the English League Championship eighteen times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup a record eight times. |
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After the first knockout round, the 40 survivors entered a group phase, with the clubs being drawn into eight groups of five each. |
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By 1862, Ferrabee's company was making eight models in various roller sizes. |
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The dome is supported on pendentives rising between eight arches spanning the nave, choir, transepts, and aisles. |
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The league was played until April, and then the Celtic Cup was contested amongst the top eight teams. |
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In 2010 Chelsea Ladies were one of the eight founder members of the FA Women's Super League. |
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Dowding also introduced modern aircraft into service during the pre war period, including the eight gun Spitfire and Hurricane. |
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Jakub Smrz took third, as nine riders went down before the official called an early end after eight laps. |
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Armstrong is a leg-breaker, with eight fielders on the on-side. Probably he would do better if he bowled more at the wicket. |
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In September 2010, it was reported that a further two 787s might join the test fleet for a total of eight flight test aircraft. |
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Each of the first four tournaments was played by eight teams, divided into two groups of four. |
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The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain. |
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Telephone and cellular subscribers' numbers have eight digits, previously they were only six digits. |
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It is organised into eight directorates that report to the chief executive. |
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In May 1877, Richard Wagner himself conducted the first half of each of the eight concerts which made up the Grand Wagner Festival. |
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Part II of the Charter details eight main principles and objectives upon which States must base their policies and legislation. |
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Montoya finished third in the Drivers' Championship, eight points ahead of Ralf Schumacher, who finished fourth. |
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The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as a botanic garden. |
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His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. |
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According to one theory, the eight romances were originally intended to be separate, but Caxton altered them to be more unified. |
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For example, the Puritans who established Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 founded Harvard College only eight years later. |
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Hill became champion in 1996 with eight wins, but was dropped by Williams for the following season. |
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During the match, the players made a total of eight century breaks, four from Hendry and four from O'Sullivan. |
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Its LZR Racer suit helped Michael Phelps win eight golds at the 2008 Olympics. |
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He has been presented many awards, including seventeen BRIT and eight ECHO awards. |
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Wittgenstein's school hours were eight to twelve or one, and he had afternoons free. |
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The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a botanic garden. |
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Four minutes later in the 69th minute, Scotland quickly scored two tries with Manclark and Shelford sealing the eight points. |
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Ethiopia is one of the eight fundamental and independent centers of origin for cultivated plants in the world. |
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Of these, eight are endemic, one has been introduced by humans, and one is rare or accidental. |
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Currently, King's is made up of eight academic faculties, which are subdivided into departments, centres and research divisions. |
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Cambridge University operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, and a botanic garden. |
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There are a total of eight intercollegiate halls of the University of London. |
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He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors. |
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These were raised into position as eight pairs, and all were fixed into place within a week. |
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Dott then took all eight frames of the third session, leaving himself one frame away from his second final in three years. |
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Primary education consists of eight years, followed by four years of secondary education, and then four years of university instruction. |
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These Agencies were supported by a set of eight newly created Regional Assemblies, or Chambers. |
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Hawke remained in charge for 28 seasons until 1910, during which time the team won eight County Championships. |
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In 1996, a related series of eight lunchtime chamber concerts was started, taking place on Mondays during the Proms season. |
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Henry was the seventh of eight children in a family that often struggled with poverty. |
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Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked. |
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He then called a meeting of his fellow sailors and moved eight ships into the harbour, causing panic within the town. |
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The Conservation Area has been split into eight 'character' areas, based on historic development, building type, uses and activities. |
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However the top eight full member teams in the ICC T20I Championship rankings on 8 October 2012 were given a place in the Super 10 stage. |
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The remaining eight teams competed in the group stage, from which two teams advance to the Super 10 stage. |
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Richard ruled peacefully for the next eight years, having reconciled with his former adversaries. |
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The host city for an Olympic Games is usually chosen seven to eight years ahead of their celebration. |
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By 1389 Richard had regained control, and for the next eight years governed in relative harmony with his former opponents. |
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From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number. |
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Hearts have won the Scottish Cup eight times and the Scottish League Cup four times. |
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The average clutch size is eight eggs but may amount up to 12, rarely only four or five eggs. |
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Prior to 2015 the eight authorities formed only a combined strategic planning authority. |
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This cabinet consists of the leaders of all eight councils, with the leader of Glasgow City Council being Chair of the Cabinet. |
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The eight district councils in Derbyshire and the unitary authority of Derby are shown in the map above. |
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Ten workers, eight of them British, were killed during construction between 1987 and 1993, most in the first few months of boring. |
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At the terminals the shuttle trains traverse a figure eight to reduce uneven wear on the wheels. |
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Census data provides eight nominal rather than 25 real wards, all of varying size and population. |
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However, many other scholars believe the poem to have been written during various years between the eight and tenth centuries. |
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There are eight sovereign states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons. |
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Badly damaged and with eight crew dead, Alferez Sobral managed to return to Puerto Deseado two days later. |
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The Rolling Stones would become the biggest band other than the Beatles to come out of the British Invasion, topping the Hot 100 eight times. |
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Coleridge made plans to establish a journal, The Watchman, to be printed every eight days to avoid a weekly newspaper tax. |
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It has a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils and since 1997, a unitary authority area of the City of Derby. |
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Ukraine is one of eight countries in Eastern Europe with an Individual Partnership Action Plan. |
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By now, much of Scotland was under English occupation, with eight of the Scottish lowland counties being ceded to England by Edward Balliol. |
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It consisted of fifteen songs, of which eight had been recorded at Headley Grange in 1974 and seven had been recorded earlier. |
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The final performance of the work at which Handel was present was at Covent Garden on 6 April 1759, eight days before his death. |
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Over the next eight years, Delius befriended many writers and artists, including August Strindberg, Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. |
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The album is certified eight times platinum in the United States, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. |
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Overall, Military Air Solution has 14,000 employees spread across eight sites in the United Kingdom. |
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The fourteen tournaments held to date have been at intervals ranging from two to eight years, and have featured a number of different formats. |
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In 2014 it was reported that another eight aircraft would be cut from the following year's order. |
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In a meeting in Sydney, Australia in March 2012, the United States pledged to eight partner nations that there would be no more program delays. |
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When Brunel was eight he was sent to Dr Morrell's boarding school in Hove, where he learned the classics. |
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It features eight regional teams from South Africa and is aimed at increasing the amount of playing time for players. |
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In May 2013 VT Transman began operating two bus contracts in Budapest for eight years. |
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Three more wins followed, including a disqualification win in eight rounds against important challenger Tommy Yarosz. |
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She has earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations, eleven Golden Globe nominations and eight BAFTA nominations. |
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This trend continued with a further eight and fifteen lost on 16 and 17 August. |
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From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million. |
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He then told von Brauchitsch and Halder that he would decide on the landing operation eight to fourteen days after the air attack began. |
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The production of the film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was completed in about eight months. |
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Nine combat launches were made, resulting in the destruction of eight Axis aircraft for the loss of one Allied pilot. |
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The film was also nominated for eight Saturn Awards and won for its costumes design. |
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It took Campania and Plym eight weeks to make the voyage, as they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope instead of traversing the Suez Canal. |
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After 23 games, teams enter a Super 8 stage, the top eight play each other once more. |
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The women's record is held by Nicol David with eight wins followed by Sarah Fitzgerald five, Susan Devoy four, and Michelle Martin three. |
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In 1920, the United States, fielding a team with many players new to the sport of rugby, upset France in a shock win, eight points to zero. |
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When he was eight or nine he transferred to the most junior form of the Northampton Grammar School, on the Billing Road. |
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The eight teams in the quarter finals play each other with the four winners progressing to the semi finals before the World Cup Final. |
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Each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and seven or eight substitutes. |
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A scrum is formed by the eight forwards from each team binding together in three rows. |
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The village is overlooked by the eight story buildings of the British Library on the Thorp Arch Trading estate. |
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The mammalian species in the islands include the introduced Central American agouti and eight species of bats. |
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He bought shares in eight Cornish copper mines and met Thomas Williams, the 'Copper King' of the Parys Mountain mines in Anglesey. |
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Celtic also clinched their sixth successive league title on 2 April 2017, with a record eight league games to spare. |
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The table measures eight feet long when it is fully extended. |
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In national elections in September 2013, voters ended eight years of Labor rule. |
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There are two chicken dishes under eight dollars listed on the menu. |
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The size and weight which the adipescent liver may acquire varies from five to eight or nine pounds. |
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Hell, it was only eight hours since he'd been kissing her goodnight, all afterglowy and affectionate. |
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The brave German car's all-wheel drive tackled and spun through almost eight inches of loosely plowed snow. |
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Agnes Minor Limberger was one of a family of eight children born to Francis and Atalina Minor. |
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In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies. |
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Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames. |
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After four to eight days of incubation, this biolung was grafted on to a rat. |
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Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him. |
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This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale. |
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We beg leave to state that on high colors cut by ten yards, there is a bonification of eight per cent. |
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Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old. |
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Changes to the Laws of the Game must be agreed by at least six of the eight delegates. |
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A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning. |
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Meanwhile, it is thirty eight degrees outside and Pastor Angie is cladly dressed walking down Gordon Parks Avenue. |
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Defensive clownery by the Mets at certain points of the game ultimately cost the 22-year-old Niese his first major league win in eight months. |
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I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history. |
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As well as outright control on these councils, the DUP is also the largest party in eight of the other councils. |
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The SNP took a further eight seats from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from the Conservatives. |
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There are only eight levels but the varied game modes in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting. |
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Torque bursts greater than eight times operating torque have been calculated. |
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The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups. |
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Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York. |
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But the De profundis has only eight verses and so it is not surprising that all of it should have been adapted. |
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He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres. |
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But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes. |
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You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons. |
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The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. |
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The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy. |
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Since 1979, Europe has won ten times outright and retained the Cup once in a tied match, with eight American wins over this period. |
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Six Argentine National Gendarmerie Special Forces were killed and eight more wounded in the crash. |
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In 2014 Sevilla won their third cup in eight years after beating Benfica on penalties. |
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Under new Director of Rugby Phil Davies, Cardiff Blues managed only eight wins in the Pro12 and one in the Heineken Cup. |
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Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. |
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Gelifluction is prominent in periglacial regions where snow falls during six to eight months of the year. |
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Amazingly, of Fly's first eight shots two are blocked, three go in, and three are goaltended. |
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The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each. |
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Pakistan's Olympics medal tally stands at ten, of which eight were earned in field hockey. |
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Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette. |
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This is like gunmakers coming out with bullets that contain eight essential vitamins. |
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She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion. |
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When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. |
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The eight regional chambers as defined by the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 were not directly elected. |
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Built by Bombardier Transportation and Vossloh Kiepe, the initial eight M5000s were ordered to allow services to be increased. |
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Only seven or eight of the native 'Indians' arrived in Spain alive, but they made quite an impression on Seville. |
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Using the spinning wheel, it took anywhere from four to eight spinners to supply one hand loom weaver. |
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His mother was taken ill with abdominal cancer and, after an unsuccessful operation, died in December 1839 when he was eight years old. |
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The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia. |
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Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross. |
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This was six times as much as that of the frilingi and eight times as much as the lazzi. |
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A team scoring four tries in one match scored a bonus point, as did a team that lost by fewer than eight points. |
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On the other hand, the eight hypergeusic children were described as temperamental during meals and difficult in their food choices. |
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Of the eleven ancient aqueducts serving Rome, eight of them entered Rome close to each other on the Esquiline Hill. |
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Rome had not fallen to an enemy since the Battle of the Allia over eight centuries before. |
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The unbinding of the Chrisom took place with great ceremony eight days later at the royal estate at Wedmore. |
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Louis had the marriage annulled and Henry married Eleanor eight weeks later on 18 May. |
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Jackson died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 three years later, after playing eight Tests. |
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The party held onto just eight constituencies in Great Britain, with only one in Scotland, one in Wales and six in England. |
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In the first eight years of the Church's life, 11 out of 21 missionaries who worked in the Gold Coast died. |
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Cornwall has a comprehensive education system, with 31 state and eight independent secondary schools. |
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Virginia has extended state recognition to eight Native American tribes resident in the state, though some lack federal recognition status. |
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In recent years, the Eden Project near St Austell has been a major financial success, drawing one in eight of Cornwall's visitors. |
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A squadron of French ships, carrying eight hundred naval infantry, attempted retaliation but made little headway. |
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In the first eight years of his rule Napoleon III paid little attention to Algeria. |
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It was discovered in time with eight conspirators executed, including Guy Fawkes, who became the iconic evil traitor in English lore. |
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And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. |
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After eight hours, the English ships began to run out of ammunition, and some gunners began loading objects such as chains into cannons. |
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Within eight hours, James was proclaimed king in London, the news received without protest or disturbance. |
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The university was one of only eight UK universities to hold a parliamentary seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. |
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The much stronger castle at Pembroke, however, fell only after a siege of eight weeks. |
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Once the riverfront was on fire and the escape route cut off by boat, the only exits were the eight gates in the wall. |
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As for the 2011 season, 25 riders of eight nations participated in the premier class of the championship. |
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Napoleon had dispatched all eight battalions of the Young Guard to reinforce Lobau, who was now seriously pressed by the enemy. |
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It was said to be the largest object ever made out of resin, taking eight attempts to produce due to the resin cracking. |
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In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. |
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The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand. |
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Seven major and eight heavy attacks were flown, but the weather made it difficult to keep up the pressure. |
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By the end of the air campaign over Britain, only eight percent of the German effort against British ports was made using mines. |
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A total of eight matches are known to have been played at Lord's in 1787, one of them a single wicket event. |
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Most professional degree programs require a prior bachelor's degree for admission, and many require seven or eight years of total study. |
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At the end of June in her first race in eight months, she won her fifth British title. |
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