Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 2 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 3 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 4 | Kiranjit Ahluwalia , jailed for murdering her husband after suffering ten years of violence , has had her sentence commuted to manslaughter and has been freed from prison . |
| 5 | Mr Sillars accused the leadership of unravelling ten years of work by party activists — a reference to the SNP decision to vote with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 which led to the taunt ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I grew out of joy-riding ten years ago . ’ |