Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 2 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 3 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
| 4 | He claims that he plotted for ten years to marry her . |
| 5 | He taught for ten years before moving into industry and working his way up to the post of project manager for a major construction company . |
| 6 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 7 | He also looked about ten years younger . |
| 8 | The Thwaites family farmed West Hury , which had a previous existence as the Hare and Hounds public house , but left after ten years to move to High Birk Hatt in 1920 . |
| 9 | This was produced in Baskerville 's capacity as printer to Cambridge University , an office he held for ten years . |