Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 2 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 3 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
| 4 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 5 | These include a one per cent discount for single contributions and a five per cent loyalty bonus for people who hold on for ten years . |
| 6 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 7 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 8 | Greenpeace , the World Wildlife Fund and the International Fund for Animal Welfare are the three international organisations , the prime organisations , which have worked closely together for ten years , but with help from many local and national bodies . |
| 9 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 10 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 11 | I might slacken off when I got established — perhaps after ten years or so . |
| 12 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 13 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 14 | But it was not until ten years later that Jack discovered she was his mother . |
| 15 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |
| 16 | It was not until ten years later that we began to see that in fact these very English store-cupboard provisions , so far from being suited to the cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages , demand first-class basic ingredients and a liberal hand with butter . |
| 17 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 18 | It was not until ten years or more had passed that the disastrous side-effects on ruck and maul of the abolition of the old ‘ play the ball with a foot after a tackle ’ law began fully to be felt . |
| 19 | It suggested that countries should recover 60 per cent and recycle 40 per cent of each form of packaging material within five years of the directive becoming law , increasing to 90 per cent and 60 per cent respectively after ten years . |
| 20 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
| 21 | The unlikely couple will probably have to leave Northern Ireland when freed — possibly in ten years — as it is doubtful former associates in the INLA and UDA will forgive , or forget , such an act of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 22 | He had also been a division president and group vice-president of Aydin Corporation , a computer systems and controls organization and a founder and executive vice-president of Delta Data Systems for close to ten years . |
| 23 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 24 | Here I was happy once till ten years old . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 26 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 27 | It can take up to ten years to readjust to this new market situation . |
| 28 | Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person . |
| 29 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 30 | We had a number of Koi and Goldfish which had lived together for up to ten years and many were quite large . |