Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simultaneously , it was being discovered that the ill-chosen or ill-formed materials and techniques used in the new build of the sixties was beginning to break down after only ten years : autopsies on building failures indicated that earlier cavalier attitudes to the intricacies of new technological phenomena such as interstitial condensation and concrete additives , called for newer skills and deeper understanding found only in the education and training of the building surveyor . |
| 2 | He succeeds John Eversley who retires later this year after nearly ten years in the post . |
| 3 | ‘ And then , after about ten years , I let the colour grow out . |
| 4 | ‘ After almost ten years as party leader and eight and a half as prime minister , the time has come for me to step aside , ’ he told a news conference in Ottawa after announcing his decision to his party . |
| 5 | lets face it , if , if Russia had wanted to declare war , to , declared war on us , sort of right ten years after the second World War had finished , and that would of been it , Europe would of been out |
| 6 | The Milton Humberside who 'd clawed his way to the middle of the heating and lighting installation business in the space of only ten years ? |
| 7 | With these highly significant aircraft and with a track record of only ten years from on site to ‘ crowned ’ TMAM 's new aircraft hall is indeed a ‘ high speed hangar ’ . |
| 8 | They can go to work when about one year old and have a working life up to the age of approximately ten years . |
| 9 | Much of our material now contains footage of peoples and events which , in the space of just ten years , have forever vanished or at least changed beyond recognition . |
| 10 | He has watched the same badger set for 46 years , he says , and with an average badger lifespan of under ten years , that means several generations . |
| 11 | Apart from the People 's Republic of China , which claims to have eradicated syphilis in the space of about ten years , most countries are now reporting an increase in the number of cases of early infectious syphilis , usually amongst male homosexuals . |
| 12 | As you can see I am working abroad — having returned to the teaching profession after a gap of about ten years . |
| 13 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 14 | Erm , that over a period of about ten years , began to wane and by and large now I think feature analysis per se has been abandoned as a as a model for understanding human perception . |
| 15 | I do n't think a boy of about ten years of age would be capable of such martyrdom . |
| 16 | But I I er remember Margaret , my wife when she had the er the last one which is a a gap of about ten years between the third you know , and the fourth child |
| 17 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 18 | Two young boys , of around ten years of age , drawing closer , then parallel , now swiftly passing , past . |
| 19 | With the implementation of the present Call-slip analysis exercise it became possible to review the situation after an interval of almost ten years , and in the tables which follow , those findings of the present Survey which relate to foreign-language material are set alongside the broadly comparable findings of the earlier periods . |
| 20 | Table 9.2 shows that for nearly ten years now voters have agreed about her strength of personality and outspokenness . |
| 21 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 22 | The result was that one Michał Drzymała , who purchased land in Wolsztyn , circumvented the rules only by living in a caravan for nearly ten years . |
| 23 | Why , for example , did the author of Lucky Jim wait for nearly ten years before following his own hero to the metropolis ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 25 | She remained in generic social work for nearly ten years before being headhunted into NISW 's management development department . |
| 26 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 27 | For nearly ten years a jungle war of incredible savagery had been fought over the same jungle tracks and expanses of savanna grassland where a decade later the Americans would lose to the Vietcong . |
| 28 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 29 | Ralph Grunte has represented the seat in Parliament for nearly ten years . |
| 30 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |