Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 2 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
| 3 | I spent ten years faking it , and hating it , and it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 4 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 5 | She died ten years ago , aged 92 . |
| 6 | These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ? |
| 7 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 8 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 9 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 10 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 11 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 12 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 13 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 14 | What 's more , he spent ten years and more living in Berlin , speaks the lingo literally like a native , and after Berlin — he came out when the show blew up — he went to Oslo . |
| 15 | When he died ten years later , she came to Beirut and found us . ’ |
| 16 | He died ten years ago . |
| 17 | Jack Stone was two years younger than her , but he looked ten years older . |
| 18 | He looked ten years younger . |
| 19 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 20 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 21 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 22 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 23 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 24 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh yeah , hanging around moonfaced like he did ten years ago , all ill-fitting clothes and two halves of shandy because he had his pushbike with him . ’ |
| 26 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 27 | ‘ He had ten years in Italy , did n't he , and then came back here and could n't find anything until Warnford took him in ? ’ |