Example sentences of "eight years ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight years ago we began work in St Luke 's , Cranham where the church was growing and several people were coming to Christ . |
| 2 | Seven or eight years ago we , we , we 're on piecework , we made our own wage . |
| 3 | Lady Thatcher has n't always been so welcome in the hallowed halls , eight years ago she was refused an honorary doctorate by Oxford University as a protest against her attitude to education . |
| 4 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 6 | Eight years ago I do n't half feel bloody old ! |
| 7 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |