Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 2 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 3 | I I 'm er quoting a hypothetical situation here that we have entered production with er production line for drop tanks maybe producing two , three thousand tanks against a projected usage for the next ten years and sometime during that period we decide you want to order an additional thousand tanks two thousand tanks then you could adjust the rate at which the deliveries occur , you could adjust the the the total quantity and with about a years notice industry can get in the materials and produce the goods for you . |
| 4 | ( Graeme Clark has been a Baptist minister for the last ten years and was appointed Executive Director of Glasgow City Mission in May 1992 . |
| 5 | The martyrdom of Husain , as the Karbala episode is usually described , is commemorated early in each Muslim New Year for the first ten days of the month of Muharram : in Shiite communities men form processions , bare to the waist , beating themselves with whips and chains until their bodies run with blood , chanting a recitation of the events of 680 . |
| 6 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |