Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hill of Dreams , one of the period 's most remarkable and decadent novels , was completed in 1897 but remained unpublished for ten years . |
| 2 | Leave that for ten years . ’ |
| 3 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 4 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 5 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 6 | I had composed that party political broadcast in a small bedroom at the back of the Buccleuch Arms Hotel at St Boswells , Roxburghshire , the reason being that after ten years at Piers Place , Old Amersham , we had decided to move . |
| 7 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 8 | But they have written to one another for ten years , hardly knowing why , and perhaps have found the greater satisfaction in it because it is a luxury , not the fulfilment of a need . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to be doing this in ten years ’ time but I certainly believe it is important to plan ahead . |
| 10 | Stockbroking will be very different in ten years ’ time , and it has changed totally since I started . |
| 11 | What will be different in ten years time ? |
| 12 | But it was only in 1988 — 9 that the ratio ( excluding privatization receipts ) fell back to that of ten years earlier . |
| 13 | The situation facing young people today is radically different from that of ten years ago . |
| 14 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 15 | Looking about him , it was hard to imagine anything quite so different from the world he had inhabited these past ten years — a world as divorced from this simple domesticity as death is from life . |
| 16 | Pray take your leave ; you have outstayed your welcome these past ten years . ’ |
| 17 | The death-watch beetle has a life cycle of three to ten years depending upon the nature of the timber it inhabits . |
| 18 | The limitation period varies from three to ten years depending on the country . |
| 19 | It was the first time in their lives that Dorothy , although younger by ten years , had ever felt the stronger of the two . |
| 20 | Jamie — younger by ten years — had felt angry , left out , dispossessed . |
| 21 | The option is expressed and remained effective for ten years . |
| 22 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 23 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 24 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 25 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 26 | BT has agreed not to increase its stake in MCI for ten years and , in any case , America 's regulators prevent any foreign investor from holding more than 25% of an American firm 's voting shares . |
| 27 | This is without boosting his monthly payments at all for ten years . |
| 28 | Guinness brands were also reintroduced into Argentina during 1992 after ten years ' absence . |
| 29 | I think it 'll still sound great in ten years . ’ |
| 30 | At the present level of staffing the project should be complete within ten years , with the German funding providing for two members of staff for three years . |