Example sentences of "in the [adj] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had gradually developed in the preceding ten years , and were displayed on British streets on a consistent basis for the first time during this dispute . |
| 2 | The value of shares over which each participant may at any time be granted an option under the Executive Scheme when added to the aggregate of the values of shares ( as at the date of grant of the options ) comprised in outstanding options granted in the preceding ten years under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme operated by the Company ( other than a savings related share options scheme ) is limited to four times the participant 's annual salary . |
| 3 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 4 | What was the upshot for resource allocation of the wrangles between the Electricity Boards and Whitehall in the first ten years of nationalisation ? |
| 5 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 6 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 7 | More than 2.7 million new houses were built in the first ten years of nationalisation , and 1954 , the peak year of Macmillan 's housing drive , saw 354000 completed . |
| 8 | In the first ten years of nationalisation , the ‘ age of affluence ’ was , for most people , still on the horizon , though the taste for consumer durables was visibly spreading . |
| 9 | Their success in winning this load ( which formed the bulk of domestic sales ) explains why domestic consumers accounted for almost a third of the Area Boards ' sales in the first ten years , rather more than was typical in other industrialised countries . |
| 10 | The bulk supply capacity charges to Area Boards rose 64 per cent in the first ten years of nationalisation , as the higher postwar investment costs were reflected in the Central Authority 's books ; and running charges were raised by 45 per cent , reflecting the rising cost of coal supplied by the National Coal Board . |
| 11 | Sales to these consumers ( which had been more effectively restrained in the difficult 1940s ) rose more rapidly than those to domestic consumers in the first ten years of nationalisation . |
| 12 | Despite these problems , the BEA were able , in the first ten years of nationalisation , to double the capacity of National Grid power stations . |
| 13 | He enjoyed considerable success ; in the first ten years of his rule Iran probably progressed more than in the entire Qajar period of the last hundred and twenty years . |
| 14 | The founder-members numbered eleven , and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected . |
| 15 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 16 | I have n't looked at the details of those figures , but are there predominantly be provided in the first ten years of the structure plan . |
| 17 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 18 | In 1576 Simon Bowyer , gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth , was granted a licence to buy and sell 500 sarplers of wool in the following ten years ; and in 1590 he received a commission to act as sole informer against those who infringed certain statutes controlling the wool trade . |
| 19 | Mr Li has made it plain that there will be no more special economic zones in the next ten years , and the praise in the communiqué for the Dengist reforms smacks of insincere ritual . |
| 20 | Global temperatures will increase as much as three degrees centigrade in the next ten years due to damage to the ozone layer . |
| 21 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 22 | During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years . |
| 23 | In the next ten years , there were twelve different governments , although the discovery of oil in Sicily , in that year , helped the Italian economy . |
| 24 | If we can work together to achieve both sets of rights in the next ten years or so , we will have done , I think , a fantastic job . |
| 25 | Next , he lost to Bill Cousens after 111 rounds , but instead of being discouraged went on to beat all foes in the next ten years . |
| 26 | Whether or not attitudes changed in the next ten years , by the Act 1 & 2 Victoria cap 110 of 1837 abolished arrest by ‘ mesne process ’ by which , as seen , a debtor could spend time in prison before his case had been tried in court and judgement made on it . |
| 27 | Mr. Malone pointed to the number of countries likely to gain nuclear arms in the next ten years , and reminded the audience that there were still 27,000 nuclear warheads distributed around the remnants of the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | An examination of Figure 4.4 shows that it is expected that UK car production will increase in the next ten years ( largely as a result of Japanese investment ) and that consequently the share of car imports in the British market will decline , as will the motor industry trade deficit . |
| 29 | His back catalogue is his best defence ; go and listen to it ( It is , incidentally , being reissued on vinyl ‘ as archive material ’ because Albini believes that the aluminium in CDs will oxidise in the next ten years and the medium — conveniently for record companies — will become defunct ) . |
| 30 | I have no illusions about the likelihood of its transforming schools in the next ten years . |