Example sentences of "last eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus began the French phase of the Vietnam conflict which was to last eight years . |
| 2 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 3 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 4 | Lancaster 's oath , however , was not enough to satisfy the court , and Mortimer launched a punitive raid lasting eight days on Lancaster 's lands in Leicestershire . |
| 5 | There were gun battles lasting eight hours on April 16 after Turkish police surrounded seven safe-houses of the extreme-left Dev Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) group in Istanbul . |
| 6 | Now , if he was churning out stunning guitar solos and loads of rhythm variations , a tune lasting eight minutes might be bearable . |
| 7 | What takes eight months to organise , lasts eight days and takes Bristol and the South West by storm ? |
| 8 | From the seamless opening shot — which lasts eight minutes and has no cuts — the themes and characters of The Player are laid before us with masterful skills as Altman glides and circles the camera around a studio car park , catching snatches of information and fragments of conversation ( a film is being pitched with the description ‘ Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate ’ . |
| 9 | It lasts eight months in all , which longer than for any NATO force . |
| 10 | It lasts , it lasts eight minutes , Chairman . |
| 11 | It lasts eight minutes . |
| 12 | The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go . |
| 13 | A month later the Commonwealth Aircraft Company ( CAC ) -built Lincoln heavy bombers of 1 Squadron thundered into the Tengah airstrip , at Singapore , commencing combat operations that would last eight hectic years . |
| 14 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 15 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 16 | The falling-out lasted eight months . |
| 17 | My vigil lasted eight miserable hours until , mercifully , in the grey light of dawn , the downpour ceased . |
| 18 | The General Strike lasted eight days . |
| 19 | The Wymott disturbances lasted eight hours . |