Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] eight years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After the Lords 's report was published , ministers decided to implement the 1975 Reservoirs Act , which had lain on the statute hook for eight years . |
| 3 | Firstly because I hate not working and I have n't worked as a club DJ for eight years , so this was a way back in . |
| 4 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 5 | They also included one unusual name : Donald Swift-Hook , the man who had run the CEGB 's own research effort into wind power for eight years , agreed to give his views on our behalf . |
| 6 | He was in Radio Times as a strip cartoon for eight years and his portrait has hung in the Royal Academy . |
| 7 | To limit the operations of non-NAFTA car companies in the North American market , tariffs would be eliminated on intra-regional trade in cars only if each NAFTA country guaranteed , over a phase-in period of eight years , 62.5 per cent local manufactured content and 60 per cent on components . |
| 8 | It was realised that the main benefits of the system would be intangible , ie. increased efficiency , improved service in quality and quantity etc , but it was an aim to achieve a payback of the system development cost within eight years . |
| 9 | Official development aid loans ( worth US$4,100 million between them ) would be rescheduled over 20 years with a maximum grace period of eight years ( instead of five ) . |
| 10 | He also served as a district councillor for eight years , before retiring in July last year . |
| 11 | The Restaurant Manager retired six months later , and was re placed by another outsider , this time a male HND diploma holder with eight years ' experience in hotels and restaurants . |
| 12 | Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’ |
| 13 | A long-serving member of the British Pottery Managers ' Association , Roy was President in 1984 and served on the executive committee for eight years . |
| 14 | The planning is in its embryo stage as the Springboks , re-emerging on the world scene after eight years exile , juggle home and away trips . |
| 15 | He has now agreed to extend his changeover period to eight years in line with the Government-backed ban . |
| 16 | Three signers were presented as illustrations : a deaf man ( signer 1 ) , a hearing man with eight years ' experience ( signer 2 ) and a hearing man whose parents were deaf and who learned BSL as a first language ( signer 3 ) . |
| 17 | EASTENDERS busybody Dot Cotton is to leave the hit TV soap after eight years , it was revealed last night . |
| 18 | In England , the guidelines issued by the Lord Chief Justice for sentencing in rape cases set out a starting point of eight years ’ imprisonment for two or more rapists acting together , for men who rape victims in the victim 's own home , for those who abuse positions of responsibility over their victims and for rape involving abduction . |