Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] last ten " in BNC.
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1 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
2 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
3 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
4 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
5 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
6 | A prospective employer 's interest will be focused on the last ten years approximately , so experiences before that can be telescoped into a short sentence or two . |
7 | Er one has only to walk down the road here for example at Strensall but equally , the first point I made would be to contradict perhaps what Mr and Mr have said er because the the difference in employment distribution is a reflection of the pop planning policies that have been followed over the last ten years . |
8 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
9 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
10 | Scenes such as these may be witnessed in many of the special units for disruptive and disaffected pupils which have been established in the last ten years . |
11 | KF 's core business , however , has always been retailing , although its rank in the market was slipping in the last ten years . |