Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] 10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conceptual basis for LIFESPAN was developed during 10 years of long lifetime software production and issue . |
| 2 | On Saturday they travel to Ayr — where the Fifers have not won for 10 years — knowing that victory at Somerset Park would take them up if Dunfermline beat Kilmarnock at East End Park . |
| 3 | He was banned from driving for 10 years and was also jailed for an additional six months for driving while disqualified . |
| 4 | Once premiums cease after 10 years , you can then leave your fund to continue accumulating and you can cash it in , at anytime , prior to your 85th birthday . |
| 5 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 6 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 7 | Bull will also be providing services support for 10 years . |
| 8 | An alternative scheme for the provision of advice was proposed and adopted after 10 years of pressure had failed to get the original scheme implemented . |
| 9 | It would apply to new plants almost immediately , while new licenses for existing plants would have to be sought within 10 years , and renewed at least every decade to take account of advances in pollution control technology . |
| 10 | It provides over 2,000 files of price histories , dating from 10 years back , and with price changes updated immediately on screen . |
| 11 | ‘ They are the most disturbed mental patients I have seen in 10 years , ’ said one doctor . |
| 12 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 13 | SEOUL ( AP ) — The Rev Moon Ik Hwan , 71 , who made an unauthorised trip to North Korea in March to discuss reunification , was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding an enemy power . |
| 14 | Mr Baig , a Lahore business man , was the subject of a BBC documentary four years ago about a Japanese heroin smuggler who was caught in Amsterdam and sentenced to 10 years ' jail . |
| 15 | On January 19 , 1989 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of ‘ counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitations ’ . |
| 16 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 17 | He was tried there under cross-border legislation and was sentenced to 10 years for the break-out . |
| 18 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 19 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 20 | He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sedition , including remarks made abroad after leaving Taiwan . |
| 21 | He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] . |
| 22 | Michael Milken , the former head of the " junk bond " department at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Nov. 21 , after pleading guilty to violating federal securities and tax laws . |
| 23 | The four-year investigation into former " junk-bond king " , Michael Milken ended in November 1990 when he was sentenced to 10 years in prison [ see p. 37848 ] . |
| 24 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 25 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 26 | On Nov. 29 Nguyen Dan Que , the sole Vietnamese member of the human rights organization Amnesty International , was sentenced to 20 years in prison , and Nguyen Van Thuan was sentenced to 10 years , when a Ho Chi Minh City court found them both guilty of distributing anti-government leaflets and of establishing an organization " aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary administration " . |
| 27 | On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings . |
| 28 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 29 | George Chang , chairman of the US-based World United Formosans for Independence , was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 8 after being found guilty of sedition and attempted murder . |
| 30 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |