Example sentences of "ten year [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Michael Baly , president of the American Gas Association , reckons that within ten years gas could be a substitute for 2 billion barrels of oil — an eighth of current American oil consumption . |
2 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
5 | This is the most serious of the offences in the Act , and is triable only on indictment and attracts a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment . |
6 | At the bottom of the ladder , simple sexual assault carries a maximum of ten years imprisonment . |
7 | They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment . |
8 | The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted . |
9 | One in six of the older workers had experienced redundancy prior to 1979 , over half of them among those with less than ten years service with the company . |
10 | Vice-president Joseph Martin and committeeman Bernard Buckley receive certificates of merit for ten years service . |
11 | Chairman Ned Spence and committeeman Wilfred Lowes will be celebrating ten years service awards with beer at 50p a pint . |
12 | Example : Male aged 25 retiring at 65 leaves his company pension scheme , ( which promises a pension of one-sixtieth of his final salary for every year of service ) after ten years service , that is , at age 35 , with a salary of £24,000 . |
13 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
14 | And that was the Logagun models For about ten years feature models were quite popular in perception . |
15 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
16 | During the last ten years Britain has changed , very often for the worse , the nature of work has changed and we the trade union Movement have not changed fast enough to keep up with the pace . |
17 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
18 | Nev 's ten years experience of using TOP to help turn Delmarva into the best in the business was fascinating . |
19 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
20 | AFTER nearly ten years work a £400m Indian power station , built by NEI Power Projects of Newcastle , will be handed over to the country 's power authorities tomorrow . |
21 | If I lived in , , , , ten years waiting list , ten years waiting list to have the opportunity , if there is an opportunity to come , to own or get a three bedroomed house . |
22 | If I lived in , , , , ten years waiting list , ten years waiting list to have the opportunity , if there is an opportunity to come , to own or get a three bedroomed house . |
23 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
24 | Their mother was often ill , and Alison , being ten years Trevor 's senior , was an enormous help and influence in Trevor 's upbringing . |
25 | For more than ten years Victoria fell into a state of decrepitude and assumed a ghost like appearance , and it was not until 1986 that final demolition was to take place to make way for an extension to the Victoria Hotel . |
26 | For ten years Frelimo , the ruling party in Mozambique , has operated a system by which party members are publicly elected by each community in a manner which effectively rules out those who may have opposing views . |
27 | Over the next ten years manufacturers will be able to exceed them , and they will want the rules changed . |
28 | ‘ In ten years TAFOS has grown to comprise eight workshops in small communities across Peru , ’ said Mr Müller . |
29 | I 'm with erm nine and ten years olds . |
30 | She was at least ten years Cunningham 's junior , Harry judged , blonde-haired and bright-eyed with a sparkling smile ; all pert vivacity and curvaceous promise in a black woollen dress that fitted where it touched , as Barry Chipchase would undoubtedly have phrased it . |