Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] ten years [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 2 | FOOTBALL : Middlesbrough midfielder Gary Hamilton is to have a testimonial match in recognition of ten years ' service . |
| 3 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
| 4 | Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim 's life or grievous bodily harm ( maximum sentence of ten years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 5 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 6 | Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time . |
| 7 | In the light of the Committee 's hesitancy , it is not surprising that the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , which raised the penalty for indecent assault to ten years ' imprisonment , did not also divide the offence into two degrees . |
| 8 | Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ? |
| 9 | To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service . |
| 10 | I am a veterinary surgeon of ten years ' experience , and feel strongly about the stray dog problem . |
| 11 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 12 | This offence , with a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , covers a wide range of conduct , from a stolen kiss on the cheek to forced fellatio ( oral sex ) . |
| 13 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | Category C , carrying a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , would cover all other sexual assaults involving penetration . |
| 15 | The girl 's mother could face a criminal charge of wilfully neglecting the child under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which carries a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 16 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
| 17 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 18 | What would happen , we asked , if new information in ten years ' time showed that the people working inside Hinkley C had been in even greater danger ? |
| 19 | Comprising 150 works by artists such as Guigou , Loubon , Isabey , Rousseau , Courdouan , Brest , Monticelli , Ziem and Gresy — who painted the Mont Sainte Victoire in 1843 , well before Cezanne and whose ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ of 1854 inspired the latter 's work of the same name — the exhibition is the fruit of ten years ' research by the Musée de Toulon 's curator-in-chief , Jean-Roger Soubiran . |
| 20 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
| 21 | Anderson has been forced to retire from the game through injury after ten years ' loyal service at St.James 's Park . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking down the street in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loasdamoney ’ at me , ’ he says . |