Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After touring the provinces for eight years , Maskelyne and Cooke began a short season in 1873 at St James Hall , Piccadilly , with their ‘ entertainment of pure trickery ’ . |
| 2 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 3 | Custodial sentences ranged from two months to eight years . |
| 4 | Long standing prisoners of conscience Vera and the late Orton Chirwa , who had received no visitors for eight years before the delegation met them . |
| 5 | Plans to revise that law , which dates from 1936 , have been discussed for decades , and have been before legislators for eight years . |
| 6 | It had haunted his dreams for eight years . |
| 7 | Wordsworth lived by his beliefs for eight years , but in 1805 he was so shaken by the death of his brother John that his self-sufficiency collapsed . |
| 8 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 9 | Equally remarkable , Mr Welch has won his kudos not by turning around a firm in trouble but by matching the performance of his predecessor , Reginald Jones , who doubled sales and tripled profits in eight years . |
| 10 | This book is now being sold freely to children of all ages and it is intended by the publishers to be read by children of eight years upwards . |
| 11 | For GEC the excess is more than 10 percentage points in eight years , and more than 5 percentage points in 18 years , out of the 20 years . |