Example sentences of "to ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 2 | ‘ If we are not successful in Berlin , then the chances of a red-green coaliion in Bonn are gone for five to ten years , ’ says Walter Momper . |
| 3 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 4 | It can take up to ten years to readjust to this new market situation . |
| 5 | The death-watch beetle has a life cycle of three to ten years depending upon the nature of the timber it inhabits . |
| 6 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 7 | Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person . |
| 8 | By analysing the evidence of many hoards it has been possible to establish the dating of the annual moneyers with a fair degree of accuracy , to within about five to ten years , although the process is by no means complete and new hoards continue to suggest revisions . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 10 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 12 | Coastal marshes , the controversial targets of environmentally destructive drainage proposals throughout the 1970s and 1980s , are also proving in many places to be simply undrainable , since , after five to ten years , soil can be subject to a process whereby the chemical bonding in the clay structure breaks down . |
| 13 | Under the banner of ‘ Liberty ’ , the National Council for Civil Liberties launched , in January 1989 , a counter-offensive to ten years of sustained attacks on individual freedom , detailed in Peter Thornton 's book , Decade of Decline : Civil Liberties in the Thatcher Years . |
| 14 | NatWest Home Improvement Loans are available for amounts from £500 to £30,000 covering any period from one to ten years . |
| 15 | NatWest 's Home Improvement Loans are available for amounts from £500 to £30,000 covering any period from one to ten years . |
| 16 | In the past five to ten years general interest in the deep structure of fold belts has led to the publication of the results of a number of seismic reflection surveys from around the world which provide useful analogues . |
| 17 | The new minister admits that all this could take eight to ten years and an improved economic climate but he is adamant that attitudes must change . |
| 18 | They are all proud to be Horse Rangers and the demand to join is so high that there is a waiting list of four years for junior members ( known as Ponies ) aged seven to ten years , and two and a half years for seniors , aged ten and over . |
| 19 | Pure Bouzy Champagnes , though profuse in number , are consistently high in quality and often improve over a period of eight to ten years in bottle . |
| 20 | We had a number of Koi and Goldfish which had lived together for up to ten years and many were quite large . |
| 21 | The marrow is then frozen for up to ten years , or until the patient needs it . |
| 22 | In some instances the masses did not stop with the obit but went on with the annual ‘ year 's mind ’ for up to ten years or more . |
| 23 | With her films The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman in addition to ten years at Covent Garden , she had , I think , done as much as anyone to help put British post-war ballet on the map . |
| 24 | They must be held for five to ten years , ’ she says . |
| 25 | However , he said the whole project , which involves a range of authorities from Tendring District Council to English Nature , could take up to ten years to complete . |
| 26 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 27 | There is still no childhood vaccine although researchers at Southampton University — funded by the National Meningitis Trust — believe one may be developed in five to ten years . |
| 28 | Saving £10 per month for up to ten years will provide £14,750 for your pet if you die within the term . |
| 29 | Anyone belonging to the UDA — Europe 's biggest paramilitary group with an estimated 2,000 members actively involved in terrorism — faces up to ten years in jail . |
| 30 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |