Example sentences of "ten years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside her Monsieur Mattli , a small Greek-looking man , some ten years her senior , was also quivering with indignation . |
| 2 | He was then in his middle thirties , about ten years her senior , and doing well in a small way as a building contractor in New York and New Jersey . |
| 3 | I have seen Pamela standing amidst fair and nimble-limbed Continental women , raven-haired leggy nymphets ten years her junior , and those local platinum finger-waved blondes , well-primped and perfectly petite ; and still , they are outdone . |
| 4 | Only last week Claire won the ladies singles title at the East Cork championships defeating experienced international player Lesley O'Halloran — ten years her senior , incidentally — in the final . |
| 5 | For the next ten years their father was posted from one naval establishment to another , around most of the strategically retained vestiges of the British Empire , from Hong Kong to Aden , to Gibraltar , to Singapore and finally to Malta , and Alex and Victoria , rejoining the family during holidays , became seasoned travellers . |
| 6 | Most of those ten years which had bound us together were spent out of doors . ’ |
| 7 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
| 8 | Erm it runs through the strategy that we 're pursuing , i it er highlights the problems that er erm th that exist in the district , it stresses the need for flexibility and it concludes with an appendix which sets out the actual sites that we would like to see developed erm er over the next er ten years which is the length of the erm covered by the Richmondshire local plan . |
| 9 | The ten years which followed had certain peculiar characteristics . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 11 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 12 | In the next ten years we shall be fortunate if we witness as productive a period for text research as that which has just ended . |
| 13 | … Over the last ten years we 've built up a pretty good network . |
| 14 | Over the past ten years we have all learned from watching IOR boats that fractional rigs outperform masthead rigs . |
| 15 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 16 | Prof David Brock , of the university 's department of human genetics , said : ‘ Over the last ten years we have been very successful in finding defective genes . |
| 17 | In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ? |
| 18 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 19 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 20 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 21 | Over the next ten years they are to fund expeditions abroad , publicising Swindon 's virtues . |
| 22 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 23 | At the end of his ten years there were three : in Canada , Singapore , and the original one , |
| 24 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 25 | During the last ten years there has been a rapid growth in availability of computer-based online information retrieval systems . |
| 26 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 27 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 28 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 29 | During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially . |
| 30 | Over the last ten years there have been major changes in the employment structure of British society . |