Example sentences of "[prep] ten years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 2 | Popular at home ( the Duke of Edinburgh recently bought one ) , for foreigners they offer cheap chic : a cab dismissed after ten years ' service sells for around £1,500 ( $1,250 ) . |
| 3 | Guinness brands were also reintroduced into Argentina during 1992 after ten years ' absence . |
| 4 | INCOGNITO : ‘ Jazz Funk ’ reissued debut album from the British jazz groovers available after ten years ' deletion — out now |
| 5 | I am a veterinary surgeon of ten years ' experience , and feel strongly about the stray dog problem . |
| 6 | Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim 's life or grievous bodily harm ( maximum sentence of ten years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 7 | This offence , with a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , covers a wide range of conduct , from a stolen kiss on the cheek to forced fellatio ( oral sex ) . |
| 8 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | Category C , carrying a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , would cover all other sexual assaults involving penetration . |
| 10 | The girl 's mother could face a criminal charge of wilfully neglecting the child under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which carries a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 11 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 12 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 13 | To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service . |
| 14 | FOOTBALL : Middlesbrough midfielder Gary Hamilton is to have a testimonial match in recognition of ten years ' service . |
| 15 | Comprising 150 works by artists such as Guigou , Loubon , Isabey , Rousseau , Courdouan , Brest , Monticelli , Ziem and Gresy — who painted the Mont Sainte Victoire in 1843 , well before Cezanne and whose ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ of 1854 inspired the latter 's work of the same name — the exhibition is the fruit of ten years ' research by the Musée de Toulon 's curator-in-chief , Jean-Roger Soubiran . |
| 16 | A policeman 's wage with ten years ' service was on £4. 10&shilling plus his lodging allowance — you were well on the way to the top of the money league . |
| 17 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 18 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 19 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 20 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking down the street in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loasdamoney ’ at me , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Who will be in charge of Germany in ten years ' time ? |
| 25 | What would happen , we asked , if new information in ten years ' time showed that the people working inside Hinkley C had been in even greater danger ? |
| 26 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 27 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |
| 28 | How would you like to see yourself in ten years ' time ? |
| 29 | If I were to rewrite this book in ten years ' time , in the light of further research and experience , my own views might well have changed somewhat . |
| 30 | In ten years ' time , when Sinead has made her mistakes , sung out all her emotional baggage , then she will start to do the real work with her extraordinary power . |