Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 2 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 3 | He became increasingly authoritarian and reliant upon the army , which in turn led to the eight years of Amin 's rule , the Tanzanian invasion , Obote 's second government and ultimately the civil war in which Museveni took power . |
| 4 | Instead he took the opportunity to read the files again and look at extracts from the visual record — films taken throughout the eight years of Kim 's stay within the Recruitment Project . |
| 5 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |