Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Category C , carrying a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , would cover all other sexual assaults involving penetration . |
| 32 | The girl 's mother could face a criminal charge of wilfully neglecting the child under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which carries a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 33 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
| 34 | I 've seen fellows with nine or ten years ' service , saying : ‘ I 'm leaving you . |
| 35 | The boy was cautioned — never went before the court because of his father being the ACC and this fellow went before the Chief Constable and he had ten years ' service at the time . |
| 36 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
| 37 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 38 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 39 | To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service . |
| 40 | FOOTBALL : Middlesbrough midfielder Gary Hamilton is to have a testimonial match in recognition of ten years ' service . |
| 41 | The commissioner who conducts the inquiry is appointed by the Lord Chancellor ( in England ) and he must be a barrister of not less than ten years ' standing . |
| 42 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 43 | In 1990 the Government also removed the statutory requirement that the Chief Land Registrar , who will be the Agency 's Chief Executive , must be a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years ' standing . |
| 44 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 45 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 46 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 47 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 48 | Being Ten Years ' History of the Union of Democratic Control , 1924 , and I Have been Young , 1935 . ] |
| 49 | I am a veterinary surgeon of ten years ' experience , and feel strongly about the stray dog problem . |
| 50 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 51 | ‘ All the information he had ’ was enough to save the Russians ten years ' research . |
| 52 | Comprising 150 works by artists such as Guigou , Loubon , Isabey , Rousseau , Courdouan , Brest , Monticelli , Ziem and Gresy — who painted the Mont Sainte Victoire in 1843 , well before Cezanne and whose ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ of 1854 inspired the latter 's work of the same name — the exhibition is the fruit of ten years ' research by the Musée de Toulon 's curator-in-chief , Jean-Roger Soubiran . |
| 53 | Three children to raise , two moves in ten years and an OU degree on top TEN years ' study is rewarded next Saturday when Mrs Catherine Goode graduates from the Open University . |
| 54 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 55 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 56 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 57 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 58 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 59 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |