Example sentences of "ten years in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pure Bouzy Champagnes , though profuse in number , are consistently high in quality and often improve over a period of eight to ten years in bottle . |
| 2 | After ten years in partnership , Nik Powell vacated his office at Virgin in less than twenty-four hours , and Richard Branson was on his own . |
| 3 | Anyone belonging to the UDA — Europe 's biggest paramilitary group with an estimated 2,000 members actively involved in terrorism — faces up to ten years in jail . |
| 4 | The culprits face up to ten years in jail or an unlimited fine . |
| 5 | He had served ten years in jail in the Republic for armed robbery ; eight years ago his brother Seamus was killed by the R U C along with Roddy McCarroll , both members of the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 6 | His name was Klaus Fuchs and the penalty he incurred for his epoch-making betrayal of atomic secrets was already paid , after less than ten years in prison . |
| 7 | I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison , or more than one year of solitary confinement . |
| 8 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 9 | I am ambitious , but you can be ambitious in the same garden because of the amount of work that you can see five or ten years in front of you . |
| 10 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |
| 11 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 12 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |
| 13 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 14 | Langbaurgh mayor Coun Arthur Harvison cut a birthday cake at the Redcar Leisure Centre yesterday to celebrate its ten years in business . |