I am interested in seeing examples of a space $X$ (preferably a closed smooth manifold, but any finite-dimensional CW-complex would also be of interest) with a vector bundle $\xi\colon E \to X$ on it, so that there is exactly one index $i$ with $w_i(\xi) \neq 0$, and $i$ is bigger than $8$. Here are some remarks:
(1) First, this could only happen if $i$ is a power of 2: As a module over the Steenrod algebra, $H^{\ast}(BO;\mathbb F_2) = \mathbb F_2[w_1,w_2,w_3,\dots]$ is generated by $w_{2^k}$, so the first nonzero SW-class is always of degree $2^k$ (this is also an exercixe in Milnor-Stasheff).
(2) For $i=1,2,4,8$ one could take $S^1 = \mathbb RP^1, S^2 = \mathbb CP^1, S^4 = \mathbb HP^1$ and $S^8 = \mathbb OP^1$ with the canoncial bundles on these spaces.
(3) Beyond dimension 8, a sphere (or even a connected sum of products of spheres) does not give rise to any such bundle. This can be seen from analyzing $$w\colon \tilde{KO}(S^{d_1} \times \dots \times S^{d_r}) \to H^{\ast}(S^{d_1} \times \dots \times S^{d_r};\mathbb F_2),$$ the main input for understanding this map is Adams' Hopf invariant one theorem.