Example sentences of "the [adj] ten years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 2 | During the first ten years he developed many new lines , and the earliest existing price-list ( 1842 ) offers sixteen varieties of drinking chocolate and eleven cocoas . |
| 3 | Over the past ten years we have all learned from watching IOR boats that fractional rigs outperform masthead rigs . |
| 4 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 5 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 6 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 7 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 8 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 9 | … Over the last ten years we 've built up a pretty good network . |
| 10 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 11 | Prof David Brock , of the university 's department of human genetics , said : ‘ Over the last ten years we have been very successful in finding defective genes . |
| 12 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 13 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 14 | ‘ Over the last ten years it 's been getting much worse . |
| 15 | In the last ten years it has become apparent that there is some stability and continuity in intellectual and cognitive functioning from infancy through early and later childhood . |
| 16 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 17 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 18 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |
| 19 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 20 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 21 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 22 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 23 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |
| 24 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 25 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |