Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Lords 's report was published , ministers decided to implement the 1975 Reservoirs Act , which had lain on the statute hook for eight years . |
| 2 | New boss Richard Lee , non-executive chairman for eight years , blames increased costs after the acquisition from the receiver of Youngs , the clothes hirer . |
| 3 | This is its highest level for eight years and will result in an increase of at least one per cent on home loan rates , possibly more . |
| 4 | The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent . |
| 5 | ANNE ROGER After eight years as a Product Manager with Robert Young & Co . |
| 6 | Firstly because I hate not working and I have n't worked as a club DJ for eight years , so this was a way back in . |
| 7 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 8 | After touring the provinces for eight years , Maskelyne and Cooke began a short season in 1873 at St James Hall , Piccadilly , with their ‘ entertainment of pure trickery ’ . |
| 9 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 11 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 12 | After concluding the deal through an intermediary , John H. Ross , Collins arranged to have the case transferred from another judge and then sentenced the man to 42 months ' imprisonment despite a recommendation of eight years by the probation officer . |
| 13 | These modest triumphs are the result of eight years of hard work by Pitcher and his team . |
| 14 | Qaddumi announced that it had been agreed in principle that Al-Fatah , the largest constituent group within the PLO , would re-open its offices in the Syrian capital after a break of eight years . |
| 15 | The programme was beaten in the TV ratings only by the ever-popular Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show , which attracted twenty-eight million viewers , the highest figure for any programme in eight years . |
| 16 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 17 | Custodial sentences ranged from two months to eight years . |
| 18 | the value of mortgage interest tax relief had risen to £4.500 million by 1986/7 , more than twice its real level of eight years before , despite the cut in the basic rate of tax . |
| 19 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 20 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 21 | The inspector , 44 , who has worked for the Princess for eight years , is currently on sick leave . |
| 22 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 23 | Long standing prisoners of conscience Vera and the late Orton Chirwa , who had received no visitors for eight years before the delegation met them . |
| 24 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 25 | Giuseppe Madonia — on the run for eight years — was thought to be No2 in the Sicilian hierarchy . |
| 26 | Mr Murphy has lived in England for eight years , mainly in the Hayes area . |
| 27 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 28 | Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’ |
| 29 | A long-serving member of the British Pottery Managers ' Association , Roy was President in 1984 and served on the executive committee for eight years . |
| 30 | Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose . |