Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 2 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 3 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the court decided that imprisonment would be in neither Howard 's nor the public 's interests , so he was fined £50 , ordered to pay £30 costs and disqualified from driving for eight years . |
| 5 | ‘ He tried for eight years ! ’ he rasped . |
| 6 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 7 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 8 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 9 | A vast new Royal infirmary costing one hundred and forty million pounds is to be built on the Southern outskirts of the capital , to open in eight years time . |
| 10 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 11 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 12 | Of the other three former executives , one was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other two to 18 years . |
| 13 | He was sentenced to eight years in youth custody . |
| 14 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | Fr Moon Gyn Hyon , a Roman Catholic priest who travelled to North Korea to escort Lim home , was sentenced to eight years . |
| 16 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 17 | Adrian Hopkins , the master of the IRA gun-running ship , the Eksund , was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on July 29 . |
| 18 | Hamid , 53 , and his publisher , Mohammed Madbouli , were both sentenced to eight years in prison . |
| 19 | Abdul Fatah , a former leader of the NII movement to make Indonesia an Islamic country , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on June 1 convicted of " activities undermining the state ideology , Pancasila , and the 1945 Constitution " . |
| 20 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 21 | But Michael Quigg was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder Angus McMaster in Paisley on May 16 last year , and carrying a knife . |
| 22 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |
| 23 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 24 | Only a few months ago , Action newsletter ( issue Nov/Dec 1991 ) reported that Radio RIN , which has successfully broadcast for eight years , had recently boosted its signal , reaching more children in different Mexican states . |
| 25 | On September 2 , tens of thousands of South Africans of all races observed a minute 's silence at noon in a demonstration of revulsion at the violence in which 17,000 people have died in eight years . |
| 26 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 27 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 28 | These blades are horribly sharp , so sharp in fact that one form has not needed sharpening in eight years and has cut around 200,000 straps ! |
| 29 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 30 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |