Example sentences of "[prep] over eight " in BNC.
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| 1 | After over eight years of rule by the strongly pro-US Jamaica Labour Party , a period marked by great hardship as the economy was forcibly ‘ restructured ’ , the February 1989 election returned Michael Manley 's People 's National Party . |
| 2 | The text and diagrams are clear and readable and the value of the text is greatly enhanced by about 80 per cent of the papers having an average of over eight references . |
| 3 | Until the end of the war so very few folk had beards , and then only short ones nicely trimmed , but into the room came a most handsome young man with a black fuzz of over eight inches . |
| 4 | On April 16/17 Sugar took her crew on a raid on the marshalling yards at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia , this time a flight of over eight hours duration , but on the return home a diversion was made into Boscombe Down . |
| 5 | In support of this view Sampson provides an analysis of over eight thousand parsed noun phrases from the LOB treebank . |
| 6 | I think we should be going with the C E C proposals and we should maintain our influence and our role in the Party as a collective organization , a mass organization , of over eight hundred thousand members and will be steadily rising in the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | Even by the Tories own , this pay policy will remove some one point five billion pounds from the pay packets of over eight point six million public sector workers . |
| 8 | In the case of the major bodies the D B R W , the W G A and the C B D C of over eight percent . |
| 9 | He preached the importance of youth ( ‘ Everyone over 25 should be shot ’ ) when he was himself about to enter his late twenties ; he said his band was a singles band with a short life span ( ‘ We 'll made four great records and retire ’ ) ; and he said Wedding Present songs and sets would always be very short ( sets now last an hour and songs like ‘ Take Me ’ , for over eight minutes ) . |
| 10 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 11 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 12 | Levitt Electrical Corporation House had stood as a cover for over eight years . |
| 13 | Mr. Dennis has had the benefit of living in the house , despite his bankruptcy , for over eight years since he was adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 14 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 15 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 16 | The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sept. 10 , 1989 , that it had imposed a 1 per cent increase in interest rates on savings deposits and bank loans , the first such increase for over eight years . |
| 17 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 18 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |