Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually Edward 's known me for ten years , but there we are . |
| 2 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 4 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 5 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 6 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 7 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 8 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 9 | One girl shared her story of a fringe group , which for ten years had dominated her life . |
| 10 | To begin with , the general pollution picture was complicated by the presence of an American company , Milchem Ltd , which for ten years had extracted barytes from Tynagh 's waste for export . |
| 11 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 12 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 13 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 14 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 15 | But after slaving over something for ten years , it is rather nice to show it off a bit . |
| 16 | Which I mean is after something of ten years in which case erm I would have that there 's a thorough investigation so that actual , you know , er progress back it around the town as well as possible , er need money put into it , but I think that that 's what some of these places with , with no hope of a short term bypass need . |
| 17 | After all , she worked on the nineteenth-century industrial novel for something like ten years , and even after publishing her book she went on accumulating ideas and insights about the subject . |
| 18 | and she was , and he was about foot fifty , something like ten years different which is very little |
| 19 | You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and if a man has n't wanted something in ten years , then he 's never going to want it . |
| 20 | NatWest Home Improvement Loans are available for amounts from £500 to £30,000 covering any period from one to ten years . |
| 21 | NatWest 's Home Improvement Loans are available for amounts from £500 to £30,000 covering any period from one to ten years . |
| 22 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 23 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 24 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 25 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 26 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 27 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |
| 28 | Rick 's old agent , however , had not heard from him in ten years , and could neither confirm nor deny the rumour . |
| 29 | Nobody 's been in it for ten years . |
| 30 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |