Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 2 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 3 | ‘ He tried for eight years ! ’ he rasped . |
| 4 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 5 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 6 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 7 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 8 | I said at eight years old , it should do but it |
| 9 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |