Example sentences of "ten year [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years of age she was . |
| 2 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 3 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
| 4 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 5 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 6 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |