Example sentences of "10 [coord] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 2 | It means that Britain will no longer have a permanent presence in the Security Council in 10 or 15 years ' time . |
| 3 | The union will also be asked to adopt a plan to enable ministers with 10 or more years ' service to take three-month Sabbaticals . |
| 4 | On Oct. 6 the court sentenced 11 of the men including the MTP leader , Roberto Felicetti , and two of the women to life imprisonment for murder , wounding , robbery and rebellion , with the possibility of release after 25 years for good behaviour ; the remaining seven , including the priest , Fr Juan Antonio Puigjane , an MTP leader who had not participated in the actual attack , were sentenced to terms of between 10 and 20 years ' imprisonment for complicity . |
| 5 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Indamiro Restano and Maria Elena Aparicio , both leaders of the illegal Harmonious Social Democratic Movement , were sentenced to 10 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively on May 26 . |