Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia was talking to Philip ; she wished he was beside her , but after the first ten minutes , he 'd been taken away to talk to someone else . |
| 2 | But in the last ten years , school history here has grown far more balanced . |
| 3 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 4 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 5 | But in the last ten years , United have thrived on the back of an ambitious youth policy and the curious managerial whims of Jim McLean , Dundee United created a tangerine dream for the '80s , building an impressive and free-flowing side around players like David Narey , Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock . |
| 6 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 7 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |