Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 2 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 3 | ‘ Gone back to her mother in Sardinia with the children — he 's in for eight years . ’ |
| 4 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 5 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 6 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 7 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 8 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 9 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 10 | They had had the pain for a mean of 40 months ( range 2 months-28 years ) at presentation and a mean total duration at follow up of eight years ( range 2.5–35 years ) . |
| 11 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 12 | A court on Oct. 13 , 1989 , sentenced the six members of a Lebanese assassination team to up to eight years in prison for smuggling arms , including Sam-7 missiles , into the island . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 14 | it re and he came back after eight years of of not working there and he came in hello Barbara ! |
| 15 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow . |
| 16 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 17 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 18 | He 's repeated his concern to us regularly for eight years eight years . |
| 19 | Even after eight years of a government committed to reducing the size of the Civil Service , the number directly employed by the Government in the public sector stands at 585,383 ( Civil Service Statistics , HMSO 1987 , table 3 ) . |
| 20 | We stayed there for eight years . |
| 21 | I went to school at ordinary time from as a kid and then up to till you 're about eight years old , then from eight years eight , nine , then you , I went to for about last four years . |
| 22 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 23 | An unprecedented entry of 43 teams brought in a charity bonanza with BNFL raising more than £10,000 — the best effort yet in eight years of competition . |