Example sentences of "[noun] for the last ten " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
5 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
6 | Assume that the 100 machines have been acquired at the rate of ten per time period for the last ten periods , so that from now on depreciation is equal to ten machines per time period . |
7 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
8 | The dive log screen displays maximum depth , dive time and surface interval for the last ten dives . |
9 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
10 | Does it bring it back mem memories for the last ten years ? |
11 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
12 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
13 | Mrs Peeke , who has been involved with the centre for the last ten years , claims many of the area 's old , sick and disabled needed the old system to elect committee members . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Better be without the Paracetamol for the last ten , eleven months or more . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
19 | ( Graeme Clark has been a Baptist minister for the last ten years and was appointed Executive Director of Glasgow City Mission in May 1992 . |
20 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
21 | It has n't taken its eyes off our table for the last ten minutes . ’ |