Example sentences of "the ten years [pers pn] " 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 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
3 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
4 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
5 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |