Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 2 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 3 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
| 4 | Greenpeace , the World Wildlife Fund and the International Fund for Animal Welfare are the three international organisations , the prime organisations , which have worked closely together for ten years , but with help from many local and national bodies . |
| 5 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 6 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 7 | I might slacken off when I got established — perhaps after ten years or so . |
| 8 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 9 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 10 | It suggested that countries should recover 60 per cent and recycle 40 per cent of each form of packaging material within five years of the directive becoming law , increasing to 90 per cent and 60 per cent respectively after ten years . |
| 11 | The unlikely couple will probably have to leave Northern Ireland when freed — possibly in ten years — as it is doubtful former associates in the INLA and UDA will forgive , or forget , such an act of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 12 | He had also been a division president and group vice-president of Aydin Corporation , a computer systems and controls organization and a founder and executive vice-president of Delta Data Systems for close to ten years . |
| 13 | One example my coal hole accommodated for nigh on ten years was a case of Krug I bought after a successful poker evening . |
| 14 | Here I was happy once till ten years old . |
| 15 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 16 | and er , and so , and er as I say er I 've had a most wonderful life and I 've been a widow now for ten years . |
| 17 | The first was from now for ten years . |
| 18 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 19 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 20 | That he is still here after ten years of international rugby is testimony to his remarkable physical durability . |
| 21 | An inquiry was ‘ inevitable ’ and prosecutions were not ruled out — even after ten years . |
| 22 | This means that although fewer remain childless in the end , more non-manual couples are still childless compared to manual workers even after ten years of marriage . |
| 23 | And we 're trying a different approach both mentally and physically , and I believe he can be a new person even after ten years . |
| 24 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 25 | Now the implication of that is that the tide flaps and the sluices er will operate it slightly less frequently in ten years . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll still be here in ten years , ’ replied the man . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 28 | His father was a very nuggety type , and would work all day even at ten years old , ’ Robert said . |
| 29 | Maybe for ten years would be better than no . |
| 30 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |