Example sentences of "ten years [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the bottom of the ladder , simple sexual assault carries a maximum of ten years imprisonment . |
| 5 | They were both old lags and were sentenced each to ten years imprisonment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vice-president Joseph Martin and committeeman Bernard Buckley receive certificates of merit for ten years service . |
| 8 | Chairman Ned Spence and committeeman Wilfred Lowes will be celebrating ten years service awards with beer at 50p a pint . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 11 | And that was the Logagun models For about ten years feature models were quite popular in perception . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
| 14 | Nev 's ten years experience of using TOP to help turn Delmarva into the best in the business was fascinating . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ In the last ten years football has been littered with Wembley teams who have gone down . ’ |
| 20 | For the last ten years interest in the double-breasted suit has been enthusiastically revived , but now the single-breasted has its champions again . |
| 21 | Well you 've got ten years interest to pay , ai n't ya . |
| 22 | Pisa fought Genoa for control of Mediterranean trade , Florence fought Siena for control of the trade route to Rome , and in the Ten Years War ( 1118–1127 ) , Milan fought the city of Como for control of Lombardy . |
| 23 | ‘ In ten years Earth is going to die . ’ |
| 24 | Over the past ten years recruitment of nurses has been relatively ease Neither a great deal of effort nor man hours has been dedicated to the process . |
| 25 | In ten years time , more than 600 million people are expected to be severely undernourished . |
| 26 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 27 | ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’ |
| 28 | The size of the epidemic in five or ten years time has not been estimated with confidence ; the epidemic will be determined by the number of people with HIV infection who develop AIDS over time . |
| 29 | . In ten years time if you just give them a derisory thirty pence off people leave their children at home make it easier for them to bring them with them . . |
| 30 | And I see it as part of my problem in education is to erm , change the attitudes of the the boys who are , you know , at a very young , and I 'll be sorry to think that in ten years time they would still be having erm the rather arrogant attitudes that they have ! |