Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your plans for ten years or so ? |
| 2 | In 1896 , Charles T. Woolridge had been a serving trooper with the Royal Horse Guards for ten years . |
| 3 | THE US government is barring a former Harvard Medical school investigator in heart disease from obtaining government research funds for ten years . |
| 4 | Childhood insecurity : deprivations , death of parent(s) ; numerous domestic changes ( ten homes in ten years ) . |
| 5 | His supporters subsequently asserted that the Browns had passed Common 's patterns to McCormick , but there is no evidence that the American , working in an isolated part of Virginia from 1831 , ever encountered them before his reaper improvements of ten years later . |
| 6 | Three big movies ; drinking with Bogie ; flirting with Garbo ; taken up by Hedda Hopper , ‘ the most exciting success story since Gregory Peck 's contracts of ten years back ’ ; liked by directors ; known as his own man and a tough one ; married to a charmer and , now at peace with Olivia de Havilland , sitting on the floor at a last party telling her that he was ‘ terrified ’ of going back to play Hamlet , would wake up in the middle of the night sweating and shaking at the thought , unable to go back to sleep . |
| 7 | The huge drafty dorms of ten years ago have been replace with study bedrooms , and the Four Marys no longer wear school uniform all the time and appear to have lost their hats as well ! |
| 8 | However , if you wish , you can extend this for further periods of ten years , to provide an even longer term for your tax-free savings . |
| 9 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 10 | But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . |
| 11 | He foresaw evil times for them , and extended all the leaseholds for ten years in the hope that this would provide some security . |
| 12 | When I first came across Ritwik Ghatak 's films about ten years ago , I was puzzled . |
| 13 | It was a well-known story among City men and was often told as an example of what used to happen in the bad old days of ten years ago — and what , by implication , could never happen now . |
| 14 | Two major defeats in ten years , followed now by the capture of the king , led to rebellion in Normandy and civil troubles in Paris which were to end in violence . |
| 15 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |
| 16 | Margaret has been with Lyle Carpets for ten years . |
| 17 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 18 | Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time . |
| 19 | In general , at the present time , married couples complete their families within ten years even though the intervals between the births of children are longer now than earlier in the century . |
| 20 | Britain still talks of anything more than a 15 per cent cut in the CEGB 's emissions within ten years as being ‘ impracticable ’ . |
| 21 | Some SSDs have reorganised radically five or six times in ten years . |
| 22 | Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years , local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury . |
| 23 | Effectively the opposite of a Conservation Area , and intended to encourage development , it carries a number of financial benefits of which the most tangible is freedom from local rates for ten years . |
| 24 | You have to agree to keep up payments for ten years and normally will not be able to get at the cash in the meantime . |
| 25 | But I 'm not really concerned with your Americans of ten years ago . |
| 26 | Three children to raise , two moves in ten years and an OU degree on top TEN years ' study is rewarded next Saturday when Mrs Catherine Goode graduates from the Open University . |
| 27 | But now living in South London he has n't been behind bars for ten years . |
| 28 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 29 | He had not seen any of his children for ten years ; but he guessed that Alexei knew that he hated to be treated with formal courtesy . |
| 30 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |