Exempel på eighth

• Rome was founded in the eighth century BC .

• This is the eighth volume in the series, which totals 21 volumes in all.

• Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.

• August is the eighth month of the year.

• This was my eighth visit to the region.

• Seven-eighths of the first reparation payment was this external loan.

• He said that five-eighths of the relief would go to big financial houses and corporations.

• If we are to have goods packaged in 125-gramme containers, we are thinking in halves, quarters, eighths, and so on.

• In fact, the hall, which holds 800 people, was more than five eighths full.

• There are the urban districts of over 20,000, including about five-eighths of the population, and then there are all the other authorities, amounting to three-eighths.

• We have to remember, of course that a kilometre is five-eighths of a mile.

• Seven-eighths of this increase came from the manufacturing industries, the chief contributors being engineering and vehicles.

• To speak more accurately, only three-eighths of the amount is brought into the account.

• Taking three-eighths of that figure, we arrive at £16½ million of rateable value.

• Of the remaining half, three-quarters of it—three-eighths of the whole—is concerned with expanding and modernising the plant.

• Seven-eighths of the increase of £384 million is accounted for by six large items.

• The result is that it works out to an average of five-eighths.

• One particular division we visited had five-eighths of its unit away at the time.

• The first was on the five eighths widow's pension which has been agreed.

• The rise in freights is a fraction—three-eighths of a penny per pound.