Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the court decided that imprisonment would be in neither Howard 's nor the public 's interests , so he was fined £50 , ordered to pay £30 costs and disqualified from driving for eight years . |
| 2 | These blades are horribly sharp , so sharp in fact that one form has not needed sharpening in eight years and has cut around 200,000 straps ! |
| 3 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 4 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 5 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 6 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 7 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |