The company estimated it would take two years to get its products into half of the households in its first eight villages.

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But nowhere is their fascinatingly simple and traditional lifestyle better showcased than in the ancient hamlets of Chengyang, where eight villages skirt the winding Linxi River amid verdant farmland.

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As the town grew, eight smaller villages within it developed, and one of them is Woods Hole.

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The Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllurit'i begins 58 days after Easter when people representing eight indigenous villages from around Cuzco, Peru travel to the Sinakara sanctuary.

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Residential streets currently have no lighting between midnight and 05:30 GMT in eight towns and villages, including Dorchester and Weymouth.

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She says she sees seven or eight women a week from villages in the region, who've been told they need hysterectomies but want a second opinion.

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He said names of villages in Essex such as Eight Ash Green were testament to the historic importance of ash trees to communities in the past.

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After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.

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