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"eighteen" is an English word and is used in both written and spoken English
You can use it to refer to the age 18 or to the number 18, depending on the context. For example: She turned eighteen last month. OR He bought eighteen eggs at the store.
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eighteen
numeral
The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
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EIGHTEEN men were originally brought to court after the killing, almost exactly 41 years ago, of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
Eighteen of them were either guillotined or shot by firing squad during this period.
Eighteen months ago the suspension of two officers after the shooting of Harry Stanley, an unarmed man who was killed in east London seven years ago, led to more than a quarter of London's 400 specialist firearms officers threatening to down weapons in protest.
Eighteen years have passed and Mclean has won 73 caps and captained England to a World Cup triumph while Wilson has played 41 times internationally.
Eighteen had been set upon outside by ultras, 10 of those suffered from stab wounds, and another 50-plus had to be bandaged up and repaired after unforgivable moments when the police embarked on what has been described as an "unprovoked military-style attack".
Eighteen months ago, the gang killed another man in Co Antrim in a row over drugs and guns.
Eighteen months is certainly a very long time in politics".
Eighteen months after politicians and spy chiefs condemned Snowden as a traitor and questioned the patriotism of the editor of the Guardian for publishing his disclosures, the intelligence agencies have finally acknowledged the need to "step out of the shadows" and spell out the nature of their intrusive capabilities.
The one with the lid was boiling in ten minutes but the one without the lid took about eighteen or nineteen minutes to get to the same point.
As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino.
Eighteen Israeli soldiers have been killed, and one Israel civilian died near Erez last week.
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