Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] ten year " in BNC.
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1 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
2 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
3 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
4 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
5 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
6 | I spent ten years faking it , and hating it , and it did n't get me anywhere . |
7 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
8 | In 1727 the Synod of Moscow sent a mission which spent ten years amongst the Serbs of Vojvodina and Srem , forging strong links with the Serbian Orthodox clergy and their flocks . |
9 | The Home Office responded by stating that the same arguments which pertained ten years ago when General Horwood wished to ban the Communist party still stood today . |
10 | The surprise payment was hailed as a triumph by the receivers of the Belfast car company which collapsed ten years ago . |
11 | The opinion , which comes ten years after a joint opinion by Arden and Leonard Hoffman QC and which supersedes it , not only concludes that standards are likely to be accepted as authoritative by the courts but that they are likely to accept that that compliance with abstracts of the UITF ‘ is also necessary to meet the true and fair requirement ’ . |
12 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
13 | Moreover , many of the workers who spent ten years restoring the machine are now actively involved with the volunteer-run SDR or other preserved railways in the South West , so the return home is doubly welcome . |
14 | She died ten years ago , aged 92 . |
15 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
16 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
17 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
20 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
21 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
22 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
23 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
24 | What 's more , he spent ten years and more living in Berlin , speaks the lingo literally like a native , and after Berlin — he came out when the show blew up — he went to Oslo . |
25 | It takes ten years for eels to reach maturity and return to their spawning grounds . |
26 | When he died ten years later , she came to Beirut and found us . ’ |
27 | He died ten years ago . |
28 | Jack Stone was two years younger than her , but he looked ten years older . |
29 | He looked ten years younger . |
30 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |