Example sentences of "ten years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 2 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 3 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 4 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 5 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |
| 6 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 7 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 8 | For ten years he combined his work at the hospital with a specialist practice in mental deficiency at Earlswood . |
| 9 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 10 | Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain . |
| 11 | For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams . |
| 12 | During the first ten years he developed many new lines , and the earliest existing price-list ( 1842 ) offers sixteen varieties of drinking chocolate and eleven cocoas . |
| 13 | After more than ten years he decided that it was time he retrieved some of the money , so from 1921 to 1923 he put the wages of his chauffeur on Arsenal 's expense account and in 1926 charged the club £125 for hiring , over two years , a motor car . |
| 14 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 15 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 16 | Well , ten years I inhabited that nightmare , living it day and night . |
| 17 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 18 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 19 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 20 | Ten years it had taken , more than ten years . |
| 21 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 22 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 23 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |