Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 2 | ‘ Clean your shoes , one shoe in the bedroom means ten years in the penitentiary , our Gladys was the maddest it can happen if you let it , clean your shoes , your shoes , mud sticks , six and tuppence , please , oh no you 're not getting away with that you 're not getting away with that , it can happen . |
| 3 | His role as peacemaker came about while working as an electricity consultant and economist developing ten year energy projects to boost Third World economies and stop fighting between neighbouring countries . |
| 4 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 5 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 6 | His biggest moment came ten years ago when his marvellous mare Sobarattled up 11 wins , including the valuable Stewards ' Cup at Goodwood . |
| 7 | Pictured are consultants Myrddin Rees and Colin Jardine Brown , trustee Lady Fraser and keyhole patient Gordon Stockham cutting a cake celebrating ten years of fundraising achievements and the genesis of the new project . |
| 8 | As a result of the bad weather , the Royal Bank of Scotland 's oil index fell for the second consecutive month to 114.5 , the second lowest January since the index began ten years ago . |
| 9 | Clarke was convicted of drink driving ten years ago and banned for 18 months . |
| 10 | Seventy-seven per cent of officers in the sample had ten years or more service to their credit ; some 50 per cent of social work practitioners had less than five years experience . |
| 11 | In the case of a person missing ten years before who had never been reported missing , what hope was there now of establishing identity ? |
| 12 | The Seven Springs Playground is a day centre opened ten years ago , children from seven counties attend … the new clinic will be a centre for complementary medicine where children can be treated by acupuncturists … |
| 13 | Bruno and Anthea 's romance lasted ten years and marriage was talked about . |
| 14 | The report emphasised the seriousness of the greenhouse effect and warned that the world had ten years in which to halt forest loss . |
| 15 | Sometimes , just as I drifting off to sleep , I can see Dan Rogers running the length of the pitch to slip the ball past Bob Wilson , or Allan Clarke 's diving header past Geoff Barnett in 1972 , or Willie Young presenting Ipswich Town 's Roger Osborne with an unmissable chance in 1978 , or Nigel Winterburn 's penalty miss ten years later , or Seaman palming Lineker 's cross-shot into the corner of the net in last year 's semi-final . |
| 16 | THE COMPANY celebrated ten years of offshore contracts in December with a party in Aberdeen , where chairman Frank Bell cut a specially prepared birthday cake . |
| 17 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 18 | At a party to celebrate ten years of marriage to Clem , would you believe ? |
| 19 | This month at Exit Art/The First World , the recently expanded art conglomerate founded ten years ago by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo , you can see the very same announcements by Rauschenberg , Duchamp , Rivers & Co that you may have thrown away — along with about 200 others — in ‘ The Design Show ’ , a survey of gallery invitations from the years 1940–92 . |
| 20 | Time to project ten years ahead ; it is the year 2000 and you step into your VR room . |
| 21 | Another case is that of a woman who did not cry when her mother died ten years before . |