Example sentences of "ten years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 2 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 3 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 4 | After ten years I ‘ updated ’ to have weaving and a one-action lace carriage . |
| 5 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 6 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 7 | Over the last ten years I 've gone through different phases and characters . |
| 8 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
| 9 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 10 | Well , ten years I inhabited that nightmare , living it day and night . |
| 11 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 12 | ‘ For ten years I was a mason , carving ornaments for God 's holy churches — offering up the fruits of my labour to Him in Heaven who carved Man from Eden 's clay ! |
| 13 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 14 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 15 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 16 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 17 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 18 | At least ten years I 'd say . |