Example sentences of "ten years the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last ten years the spending of the City Council has risen beyond belief . |
| 2 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 3 | In the last ten years the BDA has successfully taken up many individual cases of discrimination . |
| 4 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 5 | There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book . |
| 6 | Over the last ten years the act of consuming a film has changed radically . |
| 7 | For nearly ten years the company flourished and Dronfield thrived , but when the home market for steel rails was saturated and firms had to look overseas for customers the land-locked position of the Sheffield area became a decided disadvantage . |
| 8 | For more than ten years the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation ( CERI ) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) has been studying aspects of integration and transition for young people who are disabled . |
| 9 | Had to take twenty aspirin a day for ten years the pain was so great . |
| 10 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 11 | For more than ten years the membership of the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching has kept itself informed through newsletters and regular conferences such as the one on Teacher Training held at Lancashire Polytechnic in 1985 , and the one on Language Teaching Techniques held at Nottingham Language Centre in 1986 . |
| 12 | In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times . |
| 13 | There were 3,000 pawnbrokers in Greater London in the 1960S , but in ten years the number dropped to 150 . |
| 14 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 15 | In ten years the city had risen , phoenix-like , from the ashes ; in five more it was leader in the Italian economic miracle . |
| 16 | Over ten years the market philosophy had undoubtedly penetrated the social services , education , the professions , and a whole range of public institutions . |
| 17 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |
| 18 | Over the last ten years the use of computers in the work of historians has increased dramatically . |
| 19 | Over the last ten years the gap between benefits and wages has widened and the new social security system has served only to heighten the disparity . |