Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 2 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 3 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 4 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 5 | Of the other three former executives , one was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other two to 18 years . |
| 6 | He was sentenced to eight years in youth custody . |
| 7 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | Fr Moon Gyn Hyon , a Roman Catholic priest who travelled to North Korea to escort Lim home , was sentenced to eight years . |
| 9 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 10 | Adrian Hopkins , the master of the IRA gun-running ship , the Eksund , was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on July 29 . |
| 11 | Hamid , 53 , and his publisher , Mohammed Madbouli , were both sentenced to eight years in prison . |
| 12 | Abdul Fatah , a former leader of the NII movement to make Indonesia an Islamic country , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on June 1 convicted of " activities undermining the state ideology , Pancasila , and the 1945 Constitution " . |
| 13 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 14 | But Michael Quigg was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder Angus McMaster in Paisley on May 16 last year , and carrying a knife . |
| 15 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |
| 16 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 17 | Only a few months ago , Action newsletter ( issue Nov/Dec 1991 ) reported that Radio RIN , which has successfully broadcast for eight years , had recently boosted its signal , reaching more children in different Mexican states . |
| 18 | On September 2 , tens of thousands of South Africans of all races observed a minute 's silence at noon in a demonstration of revulsion at the violence in which 17,000 people have died in eight years . |
| 19 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 20 | ONE OF the legendary ‘ properties ’ , Fleetway 's comic-strip psycho-cop has been optioned for eight years . |
| 21 | Bosses say they can no longer afford the free banking brought in eight years ago in an attempt to beat off competition from building society accounts . |
| 22 | Breeding may not be annual , but between 1965 and 1976 it was proved in eight years , involving a total of 10 pairs . |
| 23 | In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman after breaking into her home , but this was reduced to eight years on appeal . |
| 24 | Originally scheduled to run for 15 years , the subsidy period was reduced to eight years after objections from the European Commission , which was particularly concerned over long-term support for the nuclear industry . |
| 25 | Walter Renschler , 58 , was elected president of the Swiss Trade Union Federation ( Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund — SGB ) on Oct. 20 , 1990 , in place of Fritz Reimann , who had served for eight years . |
| 26 | His musical talents had not been confined to the School , for he had been first a choirboy at St. Matthew 's in Edgeley , and then organist for the Sunday afternoon services at Barnes ' Convalescent Home in Cheadle , followed by eight years as organist at St. John 's , Heaton Mersey , then 20 years at St. Peter 's , Stockport , and finally 34 years at the Parish Church , St. Mary 's , from which he finally retired in 1944 . |
| 27 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 28 | A military appeal court in Bucharest ruled on June 3 that a 20-year prison sentence passed on Nicu Ceausescu , the son of the overthrown and executed President Nicolae Ceausescu , should be reduced to 16 years , followed by eight years ' loss of civil liberties . |
| 29 | I 've worked for eight years , I 've got references . |
| 30 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |