Example sentences of "and [prep] ten years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was to the old mill that James Christie came from Kintyre , where he worked as a spinner in a lint mill , in 1873 and for ten years carded wool for the local women to spin , did a little weaving and some farming . |
| 2 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 3 | The impetus of 10/65 brought 35 per cent of pupils into them by 1971 , and within ten years that was to become 85 per cent . |
| 4 | He was recognised as an excellent judge of Clydesdales and within ten years his horses were winning the breed 's major honours . |
| 5 | He decided to brew a long-lasting , high quality version of this porter and within ten years he was exporting his ‘ Guinness Extra Strong Porter ’ to London . |
| 6 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 7 | If a family is not using planning , in a year they have one child and in ten years , how many ? |
| 8 | ‘ You look as old as one now ; and anyway , do n't be daft , woman , Susan 's only seven and in ten years ’ time you 'll be in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 9 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 10 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 11 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |