Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's repeated his concern to us regularly for eight years eight years . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | We stayed there for eight years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |