Example sentences of "and ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 2 | This points to a big difference between now and ten years ago . |
| 3 | Hungarians are used to waiting between five and ten years . |
| 4 | Ten per cent received life imprisonment , 15 per cent were given determinate prison sentences of between four and ten years , 10 per cent were given prison sentences below four years , and 15 per cent were given probation orders ( with or without a condition of psychiatric treatment ) . |
| 5 | Well , this certificate provides certain guarantees , ie one year for boilers , two years for all building faults , and ten years for structural defects . |
| 6 | In the 1860s a line was built along the path of the old moat and then out to the new dock at Neufahrwasser ( Nowy Port ) , and ten years later a second branch line went on up the coast to Koszalin . |
| 7 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 8 | Earlier , my husband had been slumped in his chair , furtively picking his nose behind a detective story : now he was sitting upright , looking bright and alert and ten years younger , telling Flora that the Palais Jamai was a really marvellous old palace , an excellent example of Moorish architecture — Richard is often a little didactic . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later , drunk as a judge , I staggered out into the afternoon with the two LPs under my arm and ten years of getting paid once every two months ahead of me . |
| 10 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 11 | For example , the fighting ability and reproductive success of red deer stags shows a pronounced peak between the ages of seven and ten years ( see Fig. 23,2 ) . |
| 12 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
| 13 | Like most previously published research in this area , attention will be confined to primary school children aged between five and ten years . |
| 14 | She 'll be a hundred and ten years old , ’ he replied . |
| 15 | Amir and Mansur must have been about eight and ten years old . |
| 16 | It found 70 per cent of those surveyed had never worked in the UK , 12 per cent had worked here for between one and ten years , 4 per cent for ten to 20 years , and 14 per cent for 20–40 years . |
| 17 | Knighted in 1623 , Evelyn first entered Parliament for Wilton in 1626 , and ten years later succeeded to an estate allegedly worth £2,000 per annum but heavily encumbered with debt . |
| 18 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 19 | And ten years later the Mantuan composer Alessandro Striggio ( c. 1535–c. 1595 ) , in order to hold together the forty parts of his four-choir motet ‘ Ecce beatam lucem ’ , devised a bassone or ‘ general bass ’ ‘ extracted from the lowest voices , to be played in the middle of the circle [ of performers ] by a trombone for the sustaining of the harmony with organ , lute and cembali or viols ’ . |
| 20 | It 's history now that the great Bob Paisley told him to be more ruthless for goals — and ten years on , he 's enjoying scoring more than ever . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you think to wipe out what you said and did , and ten years ’ loneliness , so easily ? |
| 22 | The cancellation fee will be ten per cent if in the first five years , five per cent between five and ten years , two per cent thereafter . ’ |
| 23 | Options may usually only be exercised between three and ten years after their grant . |
| 24 | In 1871 he was described as farmer of 20 acres and ten years later he had 28 acres . |
| 25 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |
| 26 | Many larger personal injury firms have augmented key date systems by generating reports at various intervals from the opening of a case ( say after one , three , five , seven and ten years ) . |
| 27 | And ten years of Central : Meet the man who killed Crossroads . |
| 28 | ’ I do not accept those criticisms.I think the conservators have done a very good job over one hundred and ten years . |
| 29 | Many of your listeners will know the Malvern Hills , and had resort to them And the fact that they can come and enjoy them today is through the dedication of board members over a hundred and ten years . ’ |
| 30 | Nine years and ten years . |