Example sentences of "the [adj] ten years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
2 | Over the past ten years we have all learned from watching IOR boats that fractional rigs outperform masthead rigs . |
3 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
4 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
5 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
6 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
7 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |