Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | He visited North-East towns including Darlington , Barnard Castle , Durham and Middlesbrough for eight days for a study of regional manners commissioned by Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 2 | ANNE ROGER After eight years as a Product Manager with Robert Young & Co . |
| 3 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 4 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 5 | Fifteen companies combined last week to make a single joint submission to the Object Management Group in its quest for Object Services , its first such Request For Technology , which closed on Friday with eight submissions representing some 25 companies . |
| 6 | She would deliver Arfur at eight fifty a.m. ’ magnificent in a black coat , black ankle-length dress and black leather boots , and reappear at three fifteen , leaning against the climbing frame in the same ensemble , garnished with a scarf or a single piece of jewellery . |
| 7 | It 's er Dennis next with Afternoon Special I 'll see you tonight at the Star Inn on Middle Street in Beeston at eight o'clock for Drinking Partners if you want to come along and watch there . |
| 8 | The tickets have gone the tickets have gone for the er the Phil Kelsall concert you can get them on the door four quid on the night a week on Friday at eight o'clock at the er Alfreton Leisure Centre but our complimentary tickets have gone , long long gone . |
| 9 | And we 've just heard that Derbyshire have beaten Northamptonshire by eight wickets . |
| 10 | DERBYSHIRE , the poor men of cricket , struck it rich yesterday when they crushed Northamptonshire by eight wickets to reach next month 's Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord 's . |
| 11 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 12 | Mr Murphy has lived in England for eight years , mainly in the Hayes area . |
| 13 | To add to the combination , she has lived in Scotland for eight years and her Indian father is a vicar . |
| 14 | Muir , whose company has been involved in major retail construction projects throughout Scotland for eight years , said that the method was perhaps rather unorthodox , but was highly successful in keeping the overall contract time up to scratch because of the earlier unforeseen delays caused by the original steel fabricating company going into receivership . |
| 15 | She has to be in Beverley for eight o'clock . |
| 16 | Keyboard player Nick and the American ex-model split in July after eight years but live next door to each other in Kensington . |
| 17 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 18 | An undated ducal warrant survives ordering William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough to meet Gloucester at Doncaster with eight horses and accompany him to London . |
| 19 | Gordon 's arrival lifts the number of non-Scots at Ibrox to eight , but Smith said : ‘ It does n't particularly concern me . |
| 20 | They left Aberdeen at eight o'clock on the morning of Tuesday , 24 August , and , climbing to high ground above the city , headed north-east along the coast through insignificant country — ‘ naked ’ , observed Johnson , ‘ of all vegetable decoration ’ . |
| 21 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 22 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |
| 23 | Last year 's champion Tami Avala was seventh and the best British competitor was Manx rider Steve Colley on eight . |
| 24 | There had been no further news of Alfred since he was seen by one of the hotel staff in Lady Street at eight that morning . |
| 25 | B B C news in the East Midlands at eight o'clock with Mike . |
| 26 | His highest weighted opponent was the 1929 Preakness winner Dr Freeland with eight stone eight pounds , but the horse most fancied to give him a true test in his first race outside Australia was Spanish Play , who had won the New Orleans Handicap eight days before . |
| 27 | We just use whatever plane we can for as long as it takes : Singapore in eight hours of helicopter flight , Egypt in 50 . |
| 28 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |
| 29 | Next stop , the boat to Skye from Glenelg , and after an early breakfast , they left Anoch at eight o'clock . |
| 30 | He worked with reasonable diligence , getting to Wilden by eight o'clock most mornings , and also travelling a good deal — to South Wales , to Birmingham , to London and even on one occasion to the United States — on the firm 's affairs . |