Nine years seems rather a harsh penalty for a crime that did not itself harm anyone.
The tax cut eliminates the federal estate tax in tortured stages over the next nine years.
Judge Janice Rogers Brown has served on the California Supreme Court for nine years.
"I broke it originally about nine years ago and I never got it fixed, " he said.
The former president, who led Pakistan for nine years, is currently under house arrest in Islamabad.
During my nine years in the NFL, I lived that close to the edge of destruction.
But I have another eight or nine years in front of me, maybe 20 Grand Slams.
The owner's manual recommends replacing the timing belt at 90, 000 miles or nine years.
The scandal is perhaps the most far-reaching in the nine years since Karzai took power.
We started buying and selling books nine years ago when we were both working day jobs.
Nine years ago he woke up in the middle of the night, nauseated, dizzy--and completely deaf.
The attacks took place repeatedly over nine years at her home in Washington state.
It was a disappointing day for Ulster who have not won in Dublin for nine years.
It's been nine years since the accident and I still remember that statement every day.
All of which serves to evoke, again, the atmosphere of the war, ended nine years earlier.
His whereabouts were a mystery for the next nine years, despite the bounty on his head.
Grandage announced last October he was stepping down as the Donmar's artistic director after nine years.
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They are just back from nine years in the US, where they ran a building company.
After four seasons there and one at Nazareth, he coached LeMoyne for nine years.
There have been 139 deaths since vCJD emerged in the UK nine years ago.
The Winnipeg, Manitoba, native also spent nine years as head coach of the University of Manitoba.
At twenty-nine years old with thirty looming, I want to be prepared for life.
It took her parents nine years to hook up with Moore, a medical malpractice lawyer.
Nine years ago the wounded giant IBM rolled over and very nearly aspirated its own vomit.
Jeremy Johnston, who moved to Beijing nine years ago, has since joined the group Yin Tsang.
Gross-domestic-product growth was just 5.3% in the most recent quarter, the lowest level in nine years.
The Naha district court handed Christopher Browning 10 years in jail and Skyler Dozierwalker nine years.
Janet Valentine's daughter Kayleigh died nine years ago at the age of four months.
"The crucial part of the formative years of children is between four-nine years, " says Okoya.
Sure, she is only nine years old, but other life choices are already on her horizon.
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