The phrase "a column of eight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a vertical arrangement or grouping of eight items, such as numbers, letters, or objects.
Example: "The data was organized in a column of eight to facilitate easier comparison."
Alternatives: "an array of eight" or "a stack of eight".
Toward dusk on Wednesday evening, a column of eight American Chevrolet Suburban sport utility vehicles and two British Rover vehicles swept in a cloud of dust through Ramallah, following an escort of Israeli jeeps past the waiting tanks and sport utility vehicles.
To reduce the gap between adjacent pixels, the SiPMs were read from the bottom side and the bias was given to a column of eight SiPMs through a bonding chain on the SiPM pads (B).
Soldiers in civilian clothes walked toward the morgue in a column of two.
(In vacuum technology, pressures are often expressed in torr, which is equivalent to the pressure of a column of one millimetre of mercury. One atmosphere equals 760 torr).
"It hasn't affected morale," Mr. Guzmán said as he patrolled the streets at the head of a column of four pickups full of heavily armed officers in black garb with machine guns and flak jackets.
As a column of six armoured troop carriers arrived in Slavyansk on Wednesday morning and armed men clambered down, locals crowded around them in the square next to the occupied city hall.
They made me march; taught me to move from two ranks to a column of four and back again; to load and hold a musket; to shoot on my feet, on my belly.
Cover establishes a geo-fence around these locations and whenever you go there, the left side of your lockscreen shows a column of six of your apps that fit that situation.
This was demonstrated by assembling a 4 × 4 matrix of 20-μm-diameter polystyrene beads using a column of four OFB microrobots (Figure 5).
Deviating from the default mode of cell division, these sister cells divide again along the A V axis to generate a column of four cells.
