Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

Eight years later African-born slaves arrived in the West Indies.

Eight and a half years after Part One had appeared, we get the first hint of a forthcoming Segunda Parte ( Part Two ).

In July 2007 and with six rounds remaining in the home and away season, Essendon was placed just outside the top Eight and on the brink of making the finals once again when it was announced that Kevin Sheedy's contract would not be renewed after 27 years.

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

Eight years earlier he was released from a TBS-clinic after being treated for child molestation.

Eight thousand years ago, south of the great mountain ranges in what is now the Sahara Desert, a vast savanna supported Neolithic hunters and herders whose culture flourished until the region began to desiccate as a result of climatic changes after 4000 BC.

Eight hundred years after the last outbreak, the plague returned to Europe.

Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded.

A story arc in Season Eight has Buffy travel 200 years into the future to battle and kill Dark Willow.

Eight years after the release of " Angels ", in February 2005 the British public voted it as the " Best Single of the Past Twenty-Five Years " at the 2005 BRIT Awards.

Eight years before her death, she had reportedly placed two-thirds of her money into trusts, for the benefit of her great-grandchildren.

Eight or nine years after its foundation, Mr. Charles Majoribanks, M. P.

Eight years later, in 1879, it was restored as France's national anthem, and has remained so ever since.

Eight years later, Congress replaced that law with the Atomic Energy Act Amendments of 1954, which for the first time made the development of commercial nuclear power possible, and resolved a number of other outstanding problems in implementing the first Atomic Energy Act.

Eight of the 22 had died before reaching 20 years of age-testifying to the hardness of hunter-gatherer life in the cold north.

Eight years later Wallace apologized for not having understood the true situation at Magadan.

" Eight years later, Abraham Lincoln would express the same sentiment.

Eight years after the events of Prelude, Seldon has worked out the science of psychohistory and has applied it on a galactic scale.

; At The End Of The Day: Eight years later.

Eight years later, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with two other awards, were each combined into their own single category recognizing achievement in film.

Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.

Eight months later Dalglish made a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to win the Premier League in 1995.

Eight days later Richard's own nephew Henry II of Champagne was married to the widowed Isabella, although she was carrying Conrad's child.

Eight plays later, McMahon finished the Super Bowl record 96-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run to make the Bears lead 30-3.

Eight plays later the Vikings reached the Miami 32-yard line.

Eight plays later, fullback John Riggins finished the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run.

Eight separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

Eight weeks later, Malory alone was charged with attacking the same woman, in Coventry.

Eight weeks later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.

Eight months later, in April, it was suspected that the queen was finally pregnant with her first child.

He duly established control in the Netherlands and was offered the crown of the combined area of the former 17 provinces of the Netherlands ( modern Belgium and the Netherlands ) by the Allies in the secret London Protocol ( also known as the Eight Articles of London ) of June 21, 1814, which he accepted exactly one month later.

Eight months later, an Amtrak train derailed adjacent to the town center when the tracks separated at an overheated joint, sending over a hundred victims to area hospitals.

The Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company ( AVESCO ) was later formed to run the series directly and later became an independent organisation from its IMG origins.

Eight months later the deal was terminated.

Eight months later, Perkins stepped down as TV critic, and he left the paper shortly thereafter.