Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These modest triumphs are the result of eight years of hard work by Pitcher and his team . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 15 | The inspector , 44 , who has worked for the Princess for eight years , is currently on sick leave . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 18 | Giuseppe Madonia — on the run for eight years — was thought to be No2 in the Sicilian hierarchy . |
| 19 | I 've been a skinhead for eight years . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | A long-serving member of the British Pottery Managers ' Association , Roy was President in 1984 and served on the executive committee for eight years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Addy , aged 43 , who has run the pub for eight years , said if he signed the 20-year lease his rent would increase by £19,000 to £76,000 . |
| 24 | Geoff , who has been at the Post House Wynd pub for eight years , said a temporary manager would move in today . |
| 25 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 26 | But such was the surge of support for South Africa , who have been out of international rugby for eight years , that in the end only Wales , it is understood , voted against . |
| 27 | Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease . |
| 28 | The planning is in its embryo stage as the Springboks , re-emerging on the world scene after eight years exile , juggle home and away trips . |
| 29 | Sweeny 's second marriage , in 1958 , to a New York model , Arden Sneed , ended in divorce after eight years . |
| 30 | My word and me just as a little boy of eight years . |