Example sentences of "10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you 're infected the virus may destroy your natural defences for over 10 years without you realising . |
| 2 | Kayathiri Vino Sangaralinigam was 10 years old when she was arrested in Jaffna District , Sri Lanka , in 1987 with her mother and two older sisters . |
| 3 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 4 | The conflict has continued , with varying degrees of intensity , for over 10 years . |
| 5 | We have had a substantial reduction over the past 10 years . ’ |
| 6 | Choice Hotels is looking to expand in Thailand with a target of 30 hotels in the country within 10 years . |
| 7 | As an individual who worked for over 10 years in relatively senior positions for two of the ‘ major brewers ’ , I thought it ironic that here was one set of red tape specialists accusing another . |
| 8 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 9 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 10 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 11 | ( From fieldnotes : detective sgt. , 10 years ' service ) |
| 12 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 13 | Jim Makin , Bill Mellor , Michael Hardman and Graham Lees celebrate the first 10 years . |
| 14 | After 10 years , however , Hoffman was bankrupt , and the brewery was bought for just £2,420 by Philip Betts Blake and James Mann , partners in a brewery in Lambeth . |
| 15 | This is likely to be the biggest Great British Beer Festival for more than 10 years . |
| 16 | There are also professionally-applied textured coatings which are sprayed on , and should last for 10 years or more . |
| 17 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood ; there 's little point in fitting an indestructible door in a frame that could rot in 10 years ) , and come with either a silvery finish or a factory-applied coating in a limited range of colours . |
| 18 | However , Bonhams auctioneer Alastair Laird believes the actual numbers of artwork coming on the market is not as great as 10 years ago . |
| 19 | 10 years |
| 20 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |
| 21 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 22 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 23 | World champion for 10 years between 1975 and 1985 , he has , since losing the title , been doggedly pursuing the man who took it from him , Garry Kasparov . |
| 24 | ‘ This makes the church sensitive to the needs of those areas and that section of the population which has not benefited from the last 10 years of Conservative government , ’ he says , claiming that there is ‘ no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 26 | But after 10 years of Tory rule , he had had enough of that approach to politics . |
| 27 | Mr Livingstone said he was against pacts , but 10 years of Thatcherism had demonstrated the dangers of giving power to elites . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister had spent 10 years trying to destroy the human spirit in Britain , but ‘ she has failed because we in this movement are not going to allow her ’ . |
| 29 | After 10 years of teaching Allan had had enough . |
| 30 | ‘ Playing regularly in south Wales has helped us to go places and 10 years on it 's nice to crown it with a win like this . |