Eltingh and the 32-year-old Haarhuis had won 38 titles, including five Grand Slam championships, over an eight-year span.

With an eight-year span of appointments, there will be a lot of Republicans in office throughout the state for a long time to come.

Northeastern has won just four Beanpot championships, all in an eight-year span: in 1980, '84, '85 and '88.

She first used the ability to create a reality without the 4400 in which she met and fell in love with Tom Baldwin over an eight-year span.

From 1991 through 1998, Irvin recorded 1,000-yard seasons in all but one year, racking up an impressive 10,265 yards over an eight-year span.

The days of Tom Watson's dominance of this event, when he won five Opens in an eight-year span, are over.

She has won 85 tournaments during the eight-year span, 14 of them Grand Slam events.

The Falcons punt coverage team has allowed only 5.3 yards a return, which leads the N.F.L. in an eight-year span from 1997 to 2004.

In an eight-year span from 1959 to 1966, they played in four World Series, winning three of them.

Bert Campaneris played shortstop on the great Oakland teams of the 1970's, and led the American League in stolen bases six times in an eight-year span.