Example sentences of "after eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After eight years in the public sector , Cuckney was more than ready to become involved with private industry , but he firmly believes more top executives in the UK ought to join the traffic between the two sectors . |
| 2 | After eight years of competitive play , Harris is confronted by ‘ a very serious ’ career crisis , says Norrington , but another failure in the national championships would be a devastating blow to the 20-year-old 's season and to his chances of making the top handful in the world in seasons to come . |
| 3 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 4 | Stan Storton , Telford 's manager , has resigned after eight years for family reasons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After eight years practising and perfecting he sent off for a plan and made his own Appalachian dulcimer — and it was better than the one he was given . |
| 7 | To Bob Wyatt 's dismay Warwickshire , after eight years of his leadership , opted for , as they put it , a more adventurous captain . |
| 8 | AFTER eight years as The Times man in the north of England , Peter Davenport has left ‘ The Thunderer ’ to become a partner in the expanding Harrogate public relations , design and contract publishing company Paul Sowerby Associates . |
| 9 | TOUGH guy Tony Scannell is quitting The Bill after eight years as hard-drinking Detective Sergeant Roach , it was announced last night . |
| 10 | In a remarkably frank interview , Coppell confronted the troubles he faces after eight years at Selhurst Park , and said he agrees with the inevitable consequence should he be unable to pass the biggest test of his career . |
| 11 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 12 | ‘ Sadly , after eight years of being married to each other , they just grew apart . |
| 13 | After eight years of Queen Nancy in the White House , she seemed charmingly normal and down-to-earth . |
| 14 | ‘ It will be a real wrench to leave the club after eight years but I have got to a stage when I must now look at what is best for my future . ’ |
| 15 | Keyboard player Nick and the American ex-model split in July after eight years but live next door to each other in Kensington . |
| 16 | David and Martha came to Dunstaffnage House after eight years of teaching sports in the Alps . |
| 17 | ‘ Las Meninas ’ cleaning awarded prize after eight years |
| 18 | Other offerings include the entry-level Organiser II portable range , which after eight years on the market saw sales drop to £10.3m from £13.8m . |
| 19 | The gallery , a relatively small space , allowing for the hanging of twelve to fifteen paintings , will be run by Christophe Lázar , who originally came to Colnaghi 's after eight years in private banking at Schroders in New York and investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in London . |
| 20 | After eight years , young Mrs Joyce left her husband for another partner , taking with her their two daughters , upon whom William Joyce resigned all claim . |
| 21 | But after three such encounters he said he realized this was because after eight years she had stopped loving him and he made his famous remark about adultery . |
| 22 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |
| 23 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 24 | Even after eight years of a government committed to reducing the size of the Civil Service , the number directly employed by the Government in the public sector stands at 585,383 ( Civil Service Statistics , HMSO 1987 , table 3 ) . |
| 25 | Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf . |
| 26 | He retired to the west country in 1953 after eight years . |
| 27 | After eight years of paying lawyers ' fees , Ragu is longer attending court an is ignoring the summonses that arrive regularly . |
| 28 | Eden Pastora Gómez , the former leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ( ARDE ) contra group , returned to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 , 1989 , after eight years in exile . |
| 29 | Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra González resigned on Jan. 12 after eight years in office ; as of the end of January he had not been replaced . |
| 30 | ANNE ROGER After eight years as a Product Manager with Robert Young & Co . |