Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANNE ROGER After eight years as a Product Manager with Robert Young & Co . |
| 2 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 3 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 4 | Mr Murphy has lived in England for eight years , mainly in the Hayes area . |
| 5 | To add to the combination , she has lived in Scotland for eight years and her Indian father is a vicar . |
| 6 | Muir , whose company has been involved in major retail construction projects throughout Scotland for eight years , said that the method was perhaps rather unorthodox , but was highly successful in keeping the overall contract time up to scratch because of the earlier unforeseen delays caused by the original steel fabricating company going into receivership . |
| 7 | Keyboard player Nick and the American ex-model split in July after eight years but live next door to each other in Kensington . |
| 8 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 9 | This popular prime-time , Sunday evening CBS network show provided Reagan for eight years with ‘ a vehicle for becoming familiar to a whole new generation of young people who would later vote for him . |
| 10 | Edward stopped using the title and arms of France for eight years , and only resumed them when war began again after Charles V had taken advantage of the failure to carry out the renunciation clauses and heard appeals in his court from discontented subjects of the Black Prince in Aquitaine . |
| 11 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 12 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ We have been coming to Darlington for eight years now and I can honestly say it gets better every time . |
| 13 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 14 | He had represented the rural seat of Mid-Londonderry for eight years when , in 1953 , he challenged the incumbent MP for Foyle for the nomination . |
| 15 | Dr Brynley Roberts , 62 , of Aberystwyth , who retires as librarian of the National Library of Wales next April after eight years in office , also receives the CBE . |
| 16 | The only reason I do n't call him a c*** is the commitment he showed to Leeds for eight years , through good times and bad . |
| 17 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |