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  • I just think some of the other teams might be a bit more stable, and they still haven't worked out their fullback and five-eighth, which is a bit of a worry at this time of the year.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • I just think some of the other teams might be a bit more stable, and they still haven't worked out their fullback and five-eighth, which is a bit of a worry at this time of the year.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • The former Kiwi rugby league international does not play at second five-eighth for his club but Olly Barkley does not seem the management's preferred cup of cocoa and no one else has made an unanswerable case for inclusion.

    Jonny Wilkinson's injury brings England call-up for Charlie Hodgson Robert Kitson 2010

  • The already legendary captain and five-eighth for the Brisbane Broncos, Queensland and Australia's rugby league team, has lived with his voice for seven years, even since he took a big hit to the throat which jammed a bone into his larynx.

    Darren Lockyer: I'm a Bronco, a Queenslander and a loyal Australian 2011

  • Stabilization can be tried with a 75-percent milk producing breed, a 50 percent, a three-eighth, or five-eighth -- we have cross-bred many like this.

    Fidel Castro Addresses ICA on Livestock 1990

  • Changed course and camped; distance travelled fourteen and five-eighth miles; day beautifully cool.

    McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

  • For this purpose Harry stated that the body of the boat would be made of double thickness of material, as their sawing machinery had been so much improved that they could cut it into five-eighth inch lumber, and in that way the joints could be lapped, and the sides and bottom more easily bent into the required curves to make a graceful-looking boat.

    The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island Roger Thompson Finlay

  • The potatoes he sold for fifty cents the five-eighth basket, from house to house, and he brought back, for his load of vegetables, ten dollars and twenty cents, which he handed to Mrs. Atterson, much to that lady's joy.

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

  • Near each end, say five inches, a couple of transverse holes generally five-eighth of an inch in diameter are bored.

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

  • A Laminated Blank. put together, as in Fig. 78, it will make an assemblage of two and five-eighth inches high.

    Aeroplanes 1915

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