Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 2 | I have known Rob and Sarah for ten years and their constant support , encouragement and friendship have been invaluable . |
| 3 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 4 | For three days , I waited by the hotel pool , watching young Nicaraguan girls practice the cha-cha for a beauty contest , with a media fixer named Paco who had lived and worked in Managua for ten years . |
| 5 | Subsequently the son agrees that Mr X can live in the house on every Saturday for ten years . |
| 6 | He has actually lived in Tribeca for ten years now . |
| 7 | The Countess of Tyrone was there too , as were the High Sheriff Mr Brian Thomas , Mr and Mrs Galen Weston , and their tall good-looking son Mr Galen Weston Jnr , who all flew from Windsor by helicopter ; and , who told me he had not played in England for ten years ! |
| 8 | Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years … |
| 9 | Later she worked on merchandising and public relations for Estée Lauder in England for ten years . |
| 10 | It had been a surprise to Loxford for ten years , previously accustomed , as rural communities are , to modesty and neatness in the pastoral dwelling-house . |
| 11 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 12 | Many of us have already served JS for ten years , with many more , we hope , to come . |
| 13 | Mr Lee , who came to Orkney after ten years working in Scotland , in both Highland and Grampian Regions , was reluctant to talk to the media . |
| 14 | He came to England aged ten years old and at seventeen was taking his higher school certificate in physics and hoping to study medicine as a Major scholar at King 's College . |
| 15 | With this in mind , the Careers Service at Bristol is offering a course for graduates of Bristol within ten years of graduation , who would like to help to take stock of their career to date and consider their future . |
| 16 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 17 | Its goal is to involve half of the 5,000 secondary schools in the UK within ten years . |
| 18 | Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ? |
| 19 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 20 | I had n't seen Mrs. Dow in ten years . |
| 21 | ‘ He ran the Mafia 's drug business in Britain for ten years until he was arrested in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Centurion Coins ’ is the name I traded under when I had a coin shop at Wimborne for ten years , and subsequently premises at Christchurch for two years . |
| 23 | NOVELIST Martin Amis , 44-year-old son of writer Kingsley Amis , has parted from his wealthy American wife Antonia Phillips after ten years of marriage , today 's Daily Mail reported . |
| 24 | Recorded crime has almost doubled in County Durham in ten years , with a 20pc rise during 1991 . |
| 25 | Recent statistics show recorded crime has almost doubled in County Durham in ten years , with a 20pc rise during 1991 alone . |
| 26 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
| 27 | One is surprised to discover which should be more widely known that her abstract work preceded that of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth by ten years or so . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and you 're still just his secretary . ’ |
| 29 | You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and if a man has n't wanted something in ten years , then he 's never going to want it . |
| 30 | He was also one of those who formed the force that took part in the famous Dr. Jamieson 's Raid that led to the outbreak of the Boer War , and after the war , was a farmer in Rhodesia for ten years before returning to Scotland , where he died in 1951 . |