Example sentences of "[prep] eight years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 3 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 5 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 6 | Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before . |