Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra González resigned on Jan. 12 after eight years in office ; as of the end of January he had not been replaced . |
| 2 | Ten years as it happens is not a lot different to eight years . |
| 3 | Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics on Feb. 12 showed GNP growth down from 7.3 per cent in 1989 to 5.3 per cent in 1990 , the lowest for eight years ; officials blamed a collapse in the stock market ( its index having fallen by almost 80 percentage points between February and October 1990 ) , lower industrial production and falling domestic investment . |
| 4 | It took six to eight years . ’ |
| 5 | Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years . |
| 6 | I do n't know how long she kept using it ( or more precisely , how long it kept using her ) , but surely up to the day when she noticed her sister , younger by eight years , tossing up her arm while saying good-bye to a girlfriend . |
| 7 | This dump is expected to be full within eight years . |
| 8 | The spokeswoman said : ‘ The Russian embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that both men were sentenced on June 6 to eight years imprisonment for illegal entry . |
| 9 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 10 | The Bank of England was forced to signal an increase in base rates to 15 per cent — the highest for eight years — after the Bundesbank lifted its own key rates by a full point to clamp down on West German inflation . |
| 11 | The rise to 15 per cent — the highest for eight years — will inevitably force mortgage rates higher . |
| 12 | Mr calculations on the other hand split into two periods , one of eight years and one of nine . |
| 13 | Mr claims for a five year replacement cycle , but I consider the vehicle is likely to have a lower mileage than is usual and that the replacement cycle should be one of eight years . |
| 14 | ‘ Reducing the external painting cycle from five to eight years would not affect performance and would not affect the number of applicants for places . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 16 | These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) . |
| 17 | Mrs Margarete Hoeke , sentenced in August , 1987 to eight years in jail for spying for the KGB , and Mrs Elke Falk , a ministerial secretary sentenced to 6 ½ years last May , both said they were forced into spying after love affairs . |
| 18 | He retired to the west country in 1953 after eight years . |
| 19 | Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases . |
| 20 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 21 | Russell Barkley ( an American psychologist , very experienced in helping parents to manage their children ) suggests more powerful incentives using poker chips ( tokens such as counters , buttons , marbles , etc , may be more apt in the UK ) for children from four to eight years of age , and a home points system for those of nine and older . |
| 22 | Right , in ot other words , within four to eight years . |
| 23 | So there could be a number of chartered engineer vacancies come up , during those four to eight years , but during the next four years , hopefully , we will be able to recruit one female chartered engineer . |
| 24 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |
| 25 | Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public . |
| 26 | He also found , in common with other studies ( Dunn and Kendrick 1981 ; 1982 ) , that mothers ' depressed and irritable reactions were strong prime determinants for aggression in pre-school boys , while sibling irritable reactions became prime determinants by the age of seven to eight years . |
| 27 | These were removed eventually but for anyone planting now , the up to date method is to use a specially developed tube which protects from animal damage and provides a unique microclimate which breaks down harmlessly after seven to eight years . |
| 28 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 29 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 30 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |