The stepfather served four years of an eight-year sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference

Junk-rated DuPont paid 8.5% for eight-year debt in December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building on U.S. Data Boom] Reference

Who batted .360 over an eight-year span without winning a batting title?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Brain Training] Reference

Sean, 30, wed Jennifer, 29, eight months ago after an eight-year courtship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down The Aisle] Reference

Painful resentments persist from the eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turmoil Next Door] Reference

"We are still at zero," says Captain Moqim, 35, an eight-year veteran of the force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight] Reference

Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s that left almost one million dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran's Ambassador to Iraq Promises Closer Trade Ties] Reference

The eight-year veteran is determined to show he's still capable of rushing for 1,500 yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp Storylines: No. 3 Backfield logjam] Reference

If convicted, he could get 22 years tacked onto the eight-year term he's serving in Siberia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legal Litmus Test] Reference

Nissan Motor Co. countered by matching the Volt's eight-year, 100,000-mile battery warranty.    From Wordnik.com.  [GM's Chevy Volt Electric Car Will Cost $41K] Reference

Consumer spending is down for the second year; business bankruptcies are at an eight-year high.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Problem] Reference

One is to get reparations for the devastating eight-year war Saddam waged against them in the 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Buyer Beware] Reference

In the 1980s, Iraq used chemical weapons during its eight-year war with Iran with devastating effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunt Goes On] Reference

Also convinced, NBC has given Ebersol an unprecedented eight-year contract to keep running its sports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rings Master] Reference

In fact, most Americans tend to blame the rise of terrorism here on the eight-year Clinton administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Why the Race is Looking so Good for Bush] Reference

Americans know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons; he used them against Iran during the eight-year war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germ Warfare Alert] Reference

They pointed to progress on the eight-year quest for a treaty reducing the two sides 'strategic nuclear arsenals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Boasting] Reference

Consider: eBay is posting record profits, and Amazon is finally in the black for the first time in its eight-year history.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASIA BOUND] Reference

Iran certainly isn't an inviting prospect for Saddam: the country's mullahs waged an eight-year war against Saddam's troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Watch: Where's Saddam?] Reference

With luck the lawyers say, Escobar will be out in three years or less the government says it hopes for an eight-year sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Acres, Valley Vu: A Drug Lord's Jail] Reference

As yet there's no threat of a huge arms buildup: Teheran reportedly sent weapons captured during its eight-year war with Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Alliance For Terror?] Reference

Yukos Oil's Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's wealthiest man, is serving an eight-year prison sentence for fraud and tax evasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Maybe I Was Too Naive’] Reference

Justices generally serve eight-year terms; at the end of each term, voters decide on Election Day whether or not to retain the judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Iowa's Bob Vander Plaats, a new fight on the horizon] Reference

Next year the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will launch an elaborate, eight-year study to see if that strategy works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Ebonie Can't Breathe] Reference

When two meat-processing plants closed in New Zealand, epidemiologists followed what happened to their employees over an eight-year period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Off the Layoffs] Reference