Example sentences of "for the last ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more . |
| 2 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 3 | His main mission in life for the last ten years , as chief executive of an organization called Business in the Community ( BitC ) , has been to cut unemployment and regenerate the inner cities . |
| 4 | It was captain Richards who put the brakes on with some neat off-spin , only for the last ten overs to realize another 83 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 6 | He had been a recluse , completely isolated from the world , for the last ten years . |
| 7 | The dive log screen displays maximum depth , dive time and surface interval for the last ten dives . |
| 8 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 9 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 10 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 11 | For the last ten years the singers have included choirs from Mapplewell Junior School , Staincross Ladies Choir and , retaining the connection with miners , the North Gawber Male Voice Choir . |
| 12 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 13 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 14 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 15 | ( Graeme Clark has been a Baptist minister for the last ten years and was appointed Executive Director of Glasgow City Mission in May 1992 . |
| 16 | It has n't taken its eyes off our table for the last ten minutes . ’ |
| 17 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 18 | It is trying to understand the details and hopefully finding the key to economic success for muon catalysed fusion that has occupied Steve Jones , and several others , for the last ten years . |
| 19 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 20 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 21 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 22 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 23 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 24 | Superimposed colours , transparency and opacity , signs of rust where moisture has seeped into the cloth stretched over the frame : for the last ten years Michel Mouffe 's work has created its own history through the layered transformations taking place within the canvas . |
| 25 | For the last ten months , MTI has been run by Anthony Cataldo , former president of Internet Systems Japan , once the highest ranked salesman of international banking systems in the world . |
| 26 | Data Connection Ltd , the Enfield , Middlesex-based UK software house that for the last ten years has provided some of the technical bedrock for the big OEMs , is now making its Unix/SNA connectivity software available to large end-users . |
| 27 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 28 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 29 | For the last ten years interest in the double-breasted suit has been enthusiastically revived , but now the single-breasted has its champions again . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |