Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 3 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 4 | But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival . |
| 5 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 6 | He had shed ten years . |
| 7 | Daisy 's face above the frayed collar of her old black coat had shed ten years . |
| 8 | Her mother had shed ten years since her marriage to Douglas , and after all the years of struggle had learned to laugh again . |
| 9 | Lord Mountbatten had spent ten years tirelessly promoting the dream , talking about it all over the world , often in the highest places , inspiring everyone around him and shamelessly raising money to build more colleges . |
| 10 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 11 | He had served ten years in jail in the Republic for armed robbery ; eight years ago his brother Seamus was killed by the R U C along with Roddy McCarroll , both members of the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 12 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 13 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
| 14 | In twenty-four hours she had aged ten years . |
| 15 | It sounds as if an officious enumerator was at work in 1861 ; he insisted on the full name Clementina rather than the pet form Clemmey , which had sufficed ten years earlier . |
| 16 | How the owners of these desirable residences had complained ten years ago when they found that the Garfield Centre was going to be built in their neighbourhood . |
| 17 | By 1936 he had consolidated his professional reputation ; by 1939 he had established his political hegemony ; and by 1949 he had survived ten years of internal and external difficulties . |
| 18 | The couple had waited ten years to have a child , only for driving instructor David to fall into a delirium with appendicitis as Helen went into labour . |