Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 3 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 4 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 5 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 6 | But these commissions , mostly for the originals of jokes and cartoons which Willis had managed in former times to sell to magazines , had grown fewer and fewer in the last ten years , as , indeed , had the drawings themselves . |
| 7 | We should be finished with that in the next ten days . |
| 8 | ‘ We have heard a lot of that in the last ten days , ’ she told a meeting at St John 's College , Cambridge , yesterday . |
| 9 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 10 | The notoriously media-shy financier has come into his own in the last ten years as one of the most successful behind-the-scenes advisors in the British art world . |
| 11 | The Bonn/Berlin dilemma is changing the image of the federal capital , but I think things will remain substantially the same over the next ten years ’ . |