Example sentences of "for ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protocols prolonging the 1931 treaty for ten year periods were concluded by Soviet and Afghan leaders in December 1955 and August 1965 . |
| 2 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 3 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 4 | Had to take twenty aspirin a day for ten years the pain was so great . |
| 5 | But after slaving over something for ten years , it is rather nice to show it off a bit . |
| 6 | Maybe for ten years would be better than no . |
| 7 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 8 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 9 | We were a tiny fumbling company for ten years before anybody took any notice of us . |
| 10 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 14 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 15 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 16 | Such was British confidence in the future that the Attlee government reintroduced Lloyd George 's notorious ‘ No war for ten years ’ assumption for Defence planning , but for sounder reasons . |
| 17 | And as if to cap the list of failed British assumptions , the Korean War broke out in June 1950 , forcing the abandonment of the ‘ no war for ten years ’ rule and its substitution with an over-hastily generated rearmament programme , the size of which proved beyond Britain 's economic capacity . |
| 18 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 19 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 20 | The ranks of Britain 's unemployed grew by 80,000 in December , the biggest monthly increase for ten years ; the unemployment rate rose to 6.5% , its highest level since June 1989 . |
| 21 | It has replaced Bill Knowles , head of Bancorp for ten years , with a Natwest career man , John Tugwell . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 23 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 24 | For ten years , Milan Kundera has been a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . |
| 25 | One girl shared her story of a fringe group , which for ten years had dominated her life . |
| 26 | Very generous financial assistance would be given by the Government , in the form of a grant of up to thirty per cent of capital and remission of all taxation on export sales for ten years . |
| 27 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 28 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |
| 29 | He has actually lived in Tribeca for ten years now . |
| 30 | For example , the dies used to make Roman bronze medallions of the second century AD might last for ten years , and at the city of Dalisandos in Asia Minor a die survived for more than eighty years . |