eight-year
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Abe's nearly eight-year rule, which made him Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was aided by the fragmented opposition because of Japan's electoral system, in which most constituencies elect a single member of parliament to the lower house.
And in south London, Croydon Council had the highest average annual number of large incidents per capita, as well as the biggest increase in large fly-tipping in that eight-year period, according to Government data.
After an eight-year campaign by activists, the parliament passed the Law on Information Transparency and Right to Information in June 2011, with the legislation taking effect in December 2011.
After an eight-year courtship, they married in 1986, settling in Briarcliff Manor.
A democratically elected leader, the Abba Gada, presided over the system for an eight-year term. Gadaa is no longer in wide practice but remains influential.
At the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Marie-Blanche Vasnier, the wife of Parisian civil servant Henri.