Sentences with phrase «eighth the year before»

By the beginning of the eighth year before the Hijrah there were scarcely forty men and about ten women who were Muslims in Mecca, and they met in secret.

The Wildcats didn't exactly come from nowhere to win the program's first NCS title by eight strokes that afternoon — they were Diablo Foothill Athletic League champions after all — but there wasn't a single senior in their top six, and the team had finished eighth the year before.

Not exact matches

Southwest, American Airlines, JetBlue and Alaska Air are all set to report Thursday before the opening bell; U.S. airlines are on track for their eighth straight year of profits in 2017.

Georgia's Top State ranking this year compares to eighth place last year and 10th in 2010, the year before Deal took over.

Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

«It's my eighth year of pro hockey and I've never played in an All - Star Game before,» he said after his 100th NHL game.

And if they don't lose before the Orange Bowl, this year will be the eighth time in the past 16 seasons that the winner of the Oklahoma - Nebraska game has either won some version of the national championship or at least contended for it in a bowl.

Detroit will be on the clock with the eighth overall selection this year before wrapping around with the No. 37 and No. 56 picks in the second round.

Before the deal the Pacers, who have reached the postseason for seven straight years, were just 24 - 27, but Indiana won five of its first seven games after Jackson replaced 24 - year - old Travis Best in the starting lineup and is within 3 1/2 games of the Magic for the eighth and final Eastern Conference spot.

While he is yet to lift a piece of silverware as a manager, the 45 - year - old stabilised Espanyol in Spain's top flight before guiding both Southampton and Spurs to their highest ever league finish — eighth and third, respectively.

The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced Friday that the 59 - year - old Chapman was denied once again for parole following his eighth appearance before the state parole board.

Daily use also declined among eighth graders, to 0.7 percent compared with 1.1 percent the year before.

Thirteen - year - old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

In a year that also sees the official eighth story in the main «Harry Potter» epic, «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,» debuting as a theatrical production, «Fantastic Beasts» reveals another corner of the wizarding world, exploring an American community of witches and wizards 70 years before the events of Rowling's novels.

Rian Johnson wrote the script for «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» before «The Force Awakens» was finished.The 43 - year - old filmmaker helmed the eighth...

Thirteen - year - old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

The year before I published my eighth - grade poems, my English teacher didn't ask me to make something new.

After graduating from Lesley University in Cambridge (where he earned another master's), but before heading to Harvard, Yung taught eighth - grade U.S. history for six years in Milton, Mass..

Before attending Columbia, Jamie spent two years teaching English to seventh and eighth graders at a rural public school in southwest China, where her students tried to help her overcome a fear of large insects by putting cicadas in her hair.

For students who choose the advanced placement course for mathematics studies, their high school education actually begins in seventh and eighth grades where they will be expected to take Algebra I or Geometry before entering high school in order to free up time to study more advanced maths by their senior year.

Before joining the KIPP team and family in July 2013, she spent two years on the leadership team at Explore Charter School in Brooklyn, New York developing a rigorous culture of student achievement for Kindergarten through eighth grade scholars in Brooklyn.

The eighth - gen Camry will go on sale in USA this summer and the ASEAN - spec unit will be launched later this year before making its way to India in 2018.

You will still have some money back BEFORE the eighth year, so this is really a good value car.

For its eighth year in this market, Nissan's R35 GT - R is more refined than ever before, but we want to know how it stands up to more modern supercars.

Audi has confirmed that the eighth generation 2019 A6 will debut next week at the New York Auto Show before it arrives in showrooms later this year.

Tennyson, better known as Lord Tennyson (even though he was well into his eighth decade before becoming a peer) will be familiar to most of us for a handful of his better known poems including The Charge of the Light Brigade, one of the many works written during his 42 year tenure as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria.

It's like daydreaming, like that second just before you fall asleep, but for hours, they said, for the whole of eighth grade, their eyes glazed with the shine of the newly converted, and by tenth grade they gave up and now, start of junior year, it was habit to make fun of him every time there was occasion, every time they circled up to light and puff and smoke, these friends.

Lawsuits on behalf of a minor below age six must be commenced within three years of the surgery or before his / her eighth birthday, whichever period is longer.