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- noun Plural form of
eighteen .
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These winners will be chosen from a shortlist of up to ten entries in each category up to five entries for under fourteens and up to five entries for fourteens to eighteens.
Guardian young arts critic competition 2011: Terms and conditions 2011
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These winners will be chosen from a shortlist of up to ten entries in each category up to five entries for under fourteens and up to five entries for fourteens to eighteens.
Guardian young arts critic competition 2011: Terms and conditions 2011
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Any bets on the percentage of over-eighteens who wind up being counseled, as opposed to the under-eighteens?
Today’s coined word: Literothanatophobia | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007
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Snake oil clinics are okay, but only for the over-eighteens.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Since I've become enabled and "wired" there are some important things I'd like to share with the drivers of four-wheelers regarding eighteens: "large cars" are the lifeblood of shipping -- they bring you everything you own, and the stranger behind the wheel of that big truck blocking your path or view is a human being with feelings and needs like your own.
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All the eights went first, then eight and a halves, eighteens, eighteen and a halves, elevens, and so on through the alphabet.
How We Beat The Aliens Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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All the eights went first, then eight and a halves, eighteens, eighteen and a halves, elevens, and so on through the alphabet.
Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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Six long twenty-fours of the new make, here in front, and two eighteens upon either flank, and I should like to see the whole of the Boulogne flotilla try to take yonder shore by daylight.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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In ze year 1796 one conscription took place, ant each which vas serviceable, from ze eighteens to ze twenty-first year, hat to go to town.
Boyhood 2003
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NOTE: The Detroit is a new ship, very strongly built, and mounts long twenty-fours, eighteens and twelves.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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