Example sentences of "in the [adj] ten years [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
2 | In the next ten years we shall be fortunate if we witness as productive a period for text research as that which has just ended . |
3 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
4 | In the past ten years there has been no major new investment in Kenya , a country previously regarded as an oasis of economic success in east Africa . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
7 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
8 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
9 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
10 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
11 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |
12 | In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable . |
13 | 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 . |