6 sentences with “eighteen”

Three years later, in 1967, Dr Christian Barnard transplanted a heart into a patient who survived for eighteen days.

In Vienna in 1836 and in London eighteen years later, they treated some of those affected by a cholera outbreak with homeopathy.

Alexander the Great was one of the most famous and important military leaders in history, a man who began conquering "the world" when he was eighteen years old.

Standing five metres high and eighteen metres in diameter, the Takamatsuzuka mound is located in a bamboo forest near the village of Asuka, south of Nara in central Japan. This Japanese area has ancient memories: it was an imperial residence between 600 and 700.

The archaeologists were alerted to the fact that they found a common grave, circular in shape, with the corpses of young men between eighteen and twenty-five years of age who had evidently died in battle, judging by the signs of blows with swords and spears on their skulls.

Even the Aristotelian idea of the plenum - his conception of a universe where emptiness was impossible - lasted for more than eighteen centuries. This hypothesis, known as the horror of emptiness, served more than fifty generations of humans to explain why the water in a small-spouted bottle did not fall out when the bottle was inverted. The unanimous answer was: because nature has a horror of vacuum.