The Comes Britanniarum clearly placed nine units of comitatenses under Stilicho. |
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The Regal is no longer there, but, when I was eight, nine, and ten it was a flea pit down beside the harbor. |
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Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game. |
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He played Young Rumpole, and went on to play the part in nine more adaptations of Mortimer's works. |
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The fielding team's other nine members stand outside the pitch, spread out across the field. |
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Apart from the one currently bowling, the other nine fielders are tactically deployed by the team captain in chosen positions around the field. |
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Each batting team's innings continues until nine outs are made or the numbered innings is over. |
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The minimum number of thrown darts required to complete a leg of 501 is nine. |
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Each set consists of nine ends and the player with the most shots at the end of a set wins the set. |
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The major netball competition in Europe is the Netball Superleague, which features nine teams from England, Wales and Scotland. |
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Other major sports have a turnover in low nine figures or the tens of millions. |
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England hosted Euro 96 and have qualified for nine UEFA European Championship Finals tournaments, tied for fourth best by number of appearances. |
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The most used venue was Wembley, which was used for nine matches, including all of England's six matches, the final and the third place match. |
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A nine Test triangular tournament involving England, South Africa and Australia was set up. |
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Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious. |
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The team was widely considered unstoppable, winning nine of its next ten Tests. |
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It entered its final day with England batting in their second innings, 40 runs ahead with nine wickets in hand. |
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Nightwatchman Matthew Hoggard survived four balls to end the day, when England held a lead of 124 runs, with nine wickets in hand. |
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Including the previous innings, Flintoff had taken four wickets in nine balls. |
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At the Summer Games, the gymnastics competition was expanded from seven to nine nights, and a Champions Gala was added to draw greater interest. |
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The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed liberation attempt. |
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The Mrs Sunderland Music festival is the second oldest in the United Kingdom, started in 1889 lasting for nine days each year. |
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The number was thereby reduced from 11 to nine, so that a complete round of the links comprised 18 holes. |
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His round consisted of seven birdies, which resulted in a 31 on the back nine to move into contention for his second major championship. |
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There are nine courses in the current rota, four in Scotland, four in England and one in Northern Ireland. |
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Perry won six matches out of nine, so they finished the year tied at 35 victories each. |
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Today India has a very well established racing and breeding industry, and the sport is conducted on nine racetracks by seven racing authorities. |
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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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In 1976, Mansell won six of the nine races he took part in, including his debut event at Mallory Park. |
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Placing first in nine races, Mansell had set a new record for the most wins by a single driver in one season. |
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Disqualification Orders were made against Peter Collins, and Peter Wright on 15 October 1998 for nine years, and seven years respectively. |
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When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Celtic tribes living in Normandy. |
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The territory is divided into nine electoral districts, and each voter is registered in one of those districts. |
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Eight of the nine districts are partly or wholly on Tortola, and encompass nearby neighbouring islands. |
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In 2009, Hong Kong hosted the 5th East Asian Games and nine national teams competed in it. |
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In addition, there are three netball courts, nine tennis courts and an athletics arena where the Mary Peters Track is situated. |
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Ireland won by nine wickets, securing their third consecutive Intercontinental Cup title. |
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For electoral purposes, the city is divided into six of the nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region. |
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The government is a Council of Ministers, consisting of a Chief Minister and nine ministers. |
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Under Article 27 of the UN Charter, Security Council decisions on all substantive matters require the affirmative votes of nine members. |
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Unionists, however, won a majority of seats in four of the nine counties of Ulster and affirmed their continuing loyalty to the United Kingdom. |
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So, in just nine years, the kingdom so hard won by Robert the Bruce had been shattered and had recovered. |
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The Supreme Court, led by the Chief Justice of the United States, has nine members, who serve for life. |
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Highly sweetened soft drinks are widely popular, and sugared beverages account for nine percent of American caloric intake. |
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From 2007, until conscription ended in 2008, the mandatory service was nine months. |
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In 1966, the team was increased to nine members, enabling them to develop their Diamond Nine formation. |
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When nine 141 Squadron Defiants went into action on 19 July six were lost to Bf 109s before a squadron of Hurricanes intervened. |
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In late September, the Soviet Union called a meeting of nine European Communist parties in southwest Poland. |
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Other sets of holidays, varying between nine and twelve, are officially observed in individual states. |
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The attack killed one civilian and injured fourteen others, including four men, nine women and one child. |
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It elects nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituency members and seven of the 56 additional members. |
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Newport has nine public bridges spanning the River Usk, connecting the east and west of the city. |
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Six of the nine Ulster counties form Northern Ireland and the other 26 form the state, Ireland. |
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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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Bermuda is divided into nine parishes, which have some localities called villages, such as Flatts Village and Somerset Village. |
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Mom Jeans fit Mom just the way she likes it. She'll love the nine inch zipper and casual front pleats. |
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Argument in the case was heard on 13 and 14 July 2005 by a large committee of nine Law Lords, rather than the normal five. |
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All nine judges accepted that the court had jurisdiction to consider whether the 1949 Act was valid. |
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The Regiment contains nine regular squadrons, supported by five squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment. |
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League, launched in 1996, currently comprises nine clubs, including two foreign teams. |
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The city's public school system includes nine specialized high schools to serve academically and artistically gifted students. |
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Upward from the keel, the hull was made by overlapping nine planks on either side with rivets fastening the oaken planks together. |
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He was survived by his wife Mabel, his two daughters, Elsie May and Marian, and nine of his grandchildren. |
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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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Richardson, one of nine children, was probably born in 1689 in Mackworth, Derbyshire, to Samuel and Elizabeth Richardson. |
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Lafferty, whom he discovered when he was nine, and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty pastiche he had written. |
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At this multitable tournament, 36 players will begin playing in four tables of nine players each. |
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An only child, Banks lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth where his father was based. |
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Thomas spent the last nine or ten days of his third tour in New York mostly in the company of Reitell, with whom he had an affair. |
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Until he was nine, Oscar Wilde was educated at home, where a French bonne and a German governess taught him their languages. |
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Of the 21 programmes in the orchestra's first season, Boult conducted nine and Wood five. |
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Cleopatra was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects. |
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Scotland have won the title outright 15 times and shared the championship a further nine times. |
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Since its first international game in 1910, Wales had failed to beat England at Twickenham in nine attempts. |
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They performed better than expected, winning three of their nine games, and finishing eighth in the Northern conference. |
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Currently the series visits nine different tracks in England and Scotland over the course of ten meetings. |
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Kuwait has nine islands, all of which, with the exception of Failaka Island, are uninhabited. |
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The school year lasts nine months, beginning between 21 August and 1 September, ending between 31 May and 10 June. |
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The event has brought Finland nine Olympic gold medals, five world championships, five European championships, and 24 world records. |
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James II's son, aged nine or ten, became king as James III, and his widow Mary of Gueldres acted as regent until her own death three years later. |
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These two constituencies were created in 2011 as two of the nine constituencies within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region. |
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I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest. |
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By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos. |
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By the end of 24 hours, nine water garglers, but only two in the licorice group, still found it painful to swallow. |
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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regions in their own right while England has been divided into nine regions. |
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The Scottish Government's cabinet comprises nine cabinet secretaries, who form the Cabinet of Scotland. |
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South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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North East England is one of the nine regions of England that are classified at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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Six of the nine Brigantian poleis described by Claudius Ptolemaeus in the Geographia fall within the historic county. |
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Continuing this tradition in the field of horse racing, there are currently nine established racecourses in the county. |
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Seven of the nine surviving manuscripts and fragments now reside in the British Library. |
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It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so. |
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Further widespread persecutions of the Church occurred under nine subsequent Roman emperors, most intensely under Decius and Diocletian. |
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During that time of my life I went to the IHOP every evening, heading over on my bike at exactly seven and returning at exactly nine. |
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The harvest failed in Scandinavia at least nine times between 1740 and 1800, with great loss of life. |
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Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in his reign, Edward I collected nine. |
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Meanwhile, Edward VI, despite the fact that he was only a child of nine, had his mind set on religious reform. |
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Lady Jane was proclaimed queen by the Privy Council, but her support quickly crumbled, and she was deposed after nine days. |
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In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three. |
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The Dutch defense, led by governor Frederick Coyett, held out for nine months. |
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Charles had nine children, two of whom eventually succeeded as king, and two of whom died at or shortly after birth. |
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During the 1650s they had nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood. |
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In 1993, Mulroney resigned, rather than fight an election based on his record after almost nine years in power. |
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By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating. |
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Despite lengthy delays in their own programme, the Luftwaffe beat the British efforts into the air by nine months. |
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Labour also lost a further nine seats to the Conservatives to record their lowest share of the seats since the 1987 general election. |
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All but three of the fifty nine constituencies in the country elected an SNP candidate. |
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The liturgical form of hymn which replaced the kontakion was the canon, a set of nine hymns. |
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Foot, who had spent nine years as a science master at Eton College, before joining Doon. |
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Between 1994 and 2011, nine regions had officially devolved functions within Government. |
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Regional development agencies were public bodies established in all nine regions in 1998 to promote economic development. |
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Since 1999, the nine regions have also been used as England's European Parliament constituencies and as statistical NUTS level 1 regions. |
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The same year, nine Regional Ministers were appointed by the incoming Gordon Brown government. |
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Typically a case is heard by a panel of five justices, though sometimes the panel may consist of three, seven or nine members. |
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Overall, England is divided into nine regions and 48 ceremonial counties, although these have only a limited role in public policy. |
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At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. |
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Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. |
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The Tour of Britain took nine stages and finished in London on 14 September. |
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The following table shows the GVA per capita of the nine statistical regions of England. |
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His charming, intelligent, and cultured cousin Emma Wedgwood, nine months older than Darwin, was nursing his invalid aunt. |
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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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There are nine zones, zone 1 being the central zone, which includes the loop of the Circle line with a few stations to the south of River Thames. |
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Mexico has nine years of free and compulsory primary and secondary education. |
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Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss? |
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Further results showed that nine out of 10 British companies thought their businesses could benefit from better language skills. |
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Ultimately, she bore nineteen children, of which nine lived beyond infancy. |
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The group met daily from six until nine for prayer, psalms, and reading of the Greek New Testament. |
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For the next nine years Wilfrid discharged his episcopal duties, founded monasteries, built churches, and improved the liturgy. |
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Wilfrid spent the next nine years building churches, including at the monastery at Hexham, and attending to diocesan business. |
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He was succeeded by his son, Gobind Rai who was just nine years old at the time of his father's death. |
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There are different forms of the NNV, with the number nine having symbolic associations in Norse mythology. |
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In some cases, different runes are associated with different deities, one of the nine realms, or aspects of life. |
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This contrasts with nine years in the United States, reflecting differences in the educational systems. |
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Its academic activities are organised into nine faculties which are subdivided into numerous departments, centres and research divisions. |
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It is one of the original nine British 'Clarendon Schools' public schools, investigated by the 1861 Clarendon Commission. |
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The doctors at the hospital check on the patients when they make the rounds at nine o'clock. |
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We need eleven players, but we are only nine. Can you help us make up the numbers? |
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In 1570, it was documented as still containing nine statues of Roman emperors in architectural niches. |
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It compares the behavior of nine different mallocs when used with Hummingbird and GNU Emacs dynamic memory activity traces. |
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Most of Henry's work survives, and only two of the nine towers he constructed have been completely rebuilt. |
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Henry VI, born at Windsor Castle and known as Henry of Windsor, became king at the young age of nine months. |
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The fire spread quickly and destroyed nine of the principal state rooms, and severely damaged more than 100 others. |
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Other nine sultans have their own istana in their state and throughout the country sometimes called Istana Hinggap. |
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The manufacturing and ripening process takes approximately nine to twelve weeks. |
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There have been nine reunions, with the latest being held in 2015 in Calcutta. |
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Royal Academicians, practising artists, were elected as Visitors, and served in rotation for nine months of the year. |
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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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He excelled at his studies and was promoted to the upper school at the age of nine. |
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Besides working on the Dictionary, Johnson also wrote numerous essays, sermons, and poems during these nine years. |
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From ages five to nine, she boarded with her sister Chrissey at Miss Latham's school in Attleborough, from ages nine to thirteen at Mrs. |
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Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. |
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It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release. |
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Five of nine versions published by Alice Gomme in 1894 included references to a prisoner who has stolen a watch and chain. |
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After nine years the Royal Academy of Music ceased to function but Handel soon started a new company. |
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I gave them tea and coffee, and about half an hour after nine had a salver brought in of chocolate, mulled white wine and biscuits. |
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Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age, a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. |
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In his 1964 analysis of the nine, Schwartz found it striking that no two of the symphonies are alike, either in structure or in mood. |
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The score is divided into nine sections and an epilogue, presenting dance interpretations of some of Blake's engravings. |
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The next day, the band began its fourth tour of Britain within nine months, this one scheduled for six weeks. |
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After the release of The Lion King soundtrack, the album remained at the top of Billboard 200 for nine weeks. |
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As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. |
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This was an isolated occurrence, but by the time he was nine Chaplin had, with his mother's encouragement, grown interested in performing. |
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He was nominated for nine other acting Oscars and one each for production and direction. |
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At nine o'clock that night Darkey was still consuming four-half, and relating certain adventures by sea which, he averred, had happened to himself. |
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He also won two British Academy Film Awards out of ten nominations, five Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards out of six nominations. |
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Seven of the nine films were nominated for a total of 14 Academy Awards. |
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On 19 November 1963 he took the matter to the Chancery Division of the High Court in the case of McClory v Fleming, but settled on 9 December 1963, after nine days in court. |
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In 1989, aged nine, he came first in the British Super Prix. |
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The remaining twenty AMs represent five electoral regions, each including between seven and nine constituencies, using the d'Hondt method of proportional representation. |
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Carwyn Jones has been First Minister and leader of Welsh Labour since Rhodri Morgan retired from office in December 2009, after nine years and ten months as First Minister. |
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From a similar selection, says M. Remusat, the Coreans have made a monophonic alphabet of nine vowels and fifteen consonants, with which they write their language. |
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North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. |
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In all, at least nine of the Poets Laureate graduated from Cambridge. |
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Osho died nine years ago after establishing his eclectic brand of hippy-dippy irrationalism, sexual therapy and ancient learning across the globe. |
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The nine heads of government meet at summits twice per year. |
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Castle Howard and the Earl of Harewood's residence, Harewood House, are included amongst the Treasure Houses of England, a group of nine English stately homes. |
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King's has a total of nine halls of residence located throughout London. |
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The email was intended for nine students, but an IT glitch caused the email to be sent to 400 additional families, who didn't necessarily have a place. |
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His queen, Margaret, moreover, died of sorrow for him within nine days. |
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Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and nine Western countries criticised the security bill, arguing that it infringed on democratic freedoms. |
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The French, on the west had less to do than the British on the east with their siege lines and the large nine mile open wing back to their supply base on the south coast. |
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After nine more men had died, most rights were restored to paramilitary prisoners, but official recognition of their political status was not granted. |
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In the one recorded naval engagement in 896, Alfred's new fleet of nine ships intercepted six Viking ships in the mouth of an unidentified river along the south of England. |
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After the deaths of Sands and nine others, the strike ended. |
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William and his wife Matilda of Flanders had at least nine children. |
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The great desideratum, in devising an infant's formula for food, is to make it, until he be nine months old, to resemble as much as possible a mother's own milk. |
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The Eastern part of Mostar was surrounded by HVO forces for nine months, and much of its historic city was severely damaged in shelling including the famous Stari Most bridge. |
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Each summer the county clubs compete in the first class County Championship, which consists of two leagues of nine teams and in which matches are played over four days. |
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Since Edward was then only nine years old, he could not rule directly. |
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By the time Mary was nine years old, it was apparent that Henry and Catherine would have no more children, leaving Henry without a legitimate male heir. |
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Sky previously experimented with 3D broadcasting by broadcasting an Arsenal vs Manchester United football game live in 3D in nine pubs situated throughout the United Kingdom. |
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The Welsh Orienteering Association has nine affiliated clubs. |
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The Smithsonian Institution divides Virginia into nine cultural regions. |
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Arsenal finished in either first or second place in the league in eight of Wenger's first nine seasons at the club, although on no occasion were they able to retain the title. |
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What resulted was Britain giving nine tenths of Cameroon to the French. |
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After the Restoration in 1660, of the surviving regicides not living in exile, nine were executed and most of the rest sentenced to life imprisonment. |
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Dafydd ap Ivan ap Einion, an adherent to the house of Lancaster held out, in Harlech Castle, for nine years after the accession of Edward the Fourth to the throne of England. |
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Over the next five or six days about nine vessels were stopped and ransacked as they attempted to sail past Charles Town Bar, where Teach's fleet was anchored. |
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Isaacs' first restaurant opened in London in 1896 serving fish and chips, bread and butter, and tea for nine pence, and its popularity ensured a rapid expansion of the chain. |
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Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. |
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There's no need to feel naughty about facestalking would-be dates on social media before agreeing to meet up, new research says nine in 10 NZ women do it. |
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The window depicts St Michael at the top and nine Cornish saints, Piran, Petroc, Pinnock, Germanus, Julian, Cyriacus, Constantine, Nonna and Geraint in tiers below. |
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Up to nine special transmitters directed their signals at the beams in a manner that widened its path, negating its ability to accurately locate targets. |
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Around 21 factories were seriously damaged in Coventry, and loss of public utilities stopped work at nine others, disrupting industrial output for several months. |
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In 1944 nine Shaw plays were staged in London, including Arms and the Man with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton in the leading roles. |
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Acutely ill children are having to wait up to nine hours for an intensive care bed or to be transported over a hundred miles to a hospital with a free bed. |
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The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, with nine chapters worldwide and an international conference is held every three years. |
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The Jersey Football Combination has nine teams in its top division. |
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However, the Liberals decided to oppose him and nominated William Court Gully who had been an MP for only nine years and had been a relatively quiet presence. |
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The English innings began with Marcus Trescothick hitting nine boundaries off Brett Lee, while Andrew Strauss preferred Jason Gillespie and Michael Kasprowicz. |
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Indeed, during the more than nine years that separated The Pirates of Penzance and The Gondoliers, he wrote just three plays outside of the partnership with Sullivan. |
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On 6 May 1783, on an impulse, he took the stagecoach to London and spent eight or nine months as a clerk in the employ of a Mr Holland at Gray's Inn. |
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The six counties of Northern Ireland are among the nine governed by the Ulster branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union, the governing body of rugby union in Ireland. |
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The Ulster GAA is the branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association that is responsible for the nine counties of Ulster, which include the six of Northern Ireland. |
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Wittgenstein was, at that time, serving in the Austrian Army and subsequently spent nine months in an Italian prisoner of war camp at the end of the conflict. |
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In England, as happened in the 2011 AV referendum, the 326 districts were used as the local voting areas and the returns of these then fed into nine English regional counts. |
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Bermuda is divided into nine parishes and two incorporated municipalities. |
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About nine plant species are thought to occur only on Pitcairn. |
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From 1993 Leicester enjoyed a remarkable nine trophies in 10 years. |
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One of the more successful of these ships was the Prince de Neufchatel, which once captured nine British prizes in swift succession in the English Channel. |
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But from 1970 to 1996 England won it six out of a possible nine times. |
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His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. |
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A paper in his father's handwriting, dated 9 June 1700, shows the family estate in Norfolk and Suffolk to have been nine manors in Norfolk and one in Suffolk. |
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After his father's death, Cavafy's mother brought him in 1872 at the age of nine to Liverpool where he spent part of his childhood being educated. |
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On 21 September 1990, Finland unilaterally declared the Paris Peace Treaty obsolete, following the German reunification decision nine days earlier. |
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In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. |
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During his lifetime Chapman saw Lotus beat Ferrari as the first Marque to achieve 50 Grand Prix victories, despite Ferrari having won their first nine years sooner. |
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Though the Bessemer process was licensed in 1856, nine years of detailed planning and project management were needed before the first steel was produced. |
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It opened on 7 May 1663 and was destroyed by a fire nine years later. |
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More than 120 species and nine genera have been named after Darwin. |
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Optional kindergarten education is provided for all children between three and six years old, after which school attendance is compulsory for at least nine years. |
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Buckinghamshire County Council is negotiating to have further options pursued, in order that all nine of the remaining historic bridges on the line can be saved. |
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For example, if the doubling function is given the input three, then it outputs six, and if the squaring function is given the input three, then it outputs nine. |
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A further nine successful concerts followed in other American cities. |
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The album was recorded and mixed in nine days, and Page covered the costs. |
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Armour bore him nine children, only three of whom survived infancy. |
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On 25 June, when the vast majority of festival goers were attempting to leave the festival, cars in the western car parks took over nine hours to exit the site. |
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Additionally, the Royal Australian Air Force represented around nine percent of all RAF personnel who served in the European and Mediterranean theatres. |
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In 1970, Surtees formed his own race team, the Surtees Racing Organisation, and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor. |
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About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. |
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The New Zealand Yearly Meeting, today consists of nine monthly meetings. |
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Winehouse's parents separated when she was nine, and she lived with her mother and stayed with her father and his girlfriend in Hatfield Heath, Essex, on weekends. |
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