Example sentences of "[prep] ten years he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse .
2 For ten years he had been her constant companion .
3 For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams .
4 For ten years he combined his work at the hospital with a specialist practice in mental deficiency at Earlswood .
5 Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain .
6 But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be .
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