seventy-eight

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• That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

• Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

• I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

• Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

• The Air Force has about seven pilots for every eight drone pilot slots, in other words.

• The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

• When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.

• After an eight weeks' siege, a breach having been made, the city surrendered, and a month later the fort followed the example.

• After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

• But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.