Example sentences of "[verb] ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies . |
| 2 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 3 | Clarke was convicted of drink driving ten years ago and banned for 18 months . |
| 4 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 5 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 6 | He had shed ten years . |
| 7 | Daisy 's face above the frayed collar of her old black coat had shed ten years . |
| 8 | Her mother had shed ten years since her marriage to Douglas , and after all the years of struggle had learned to laugh again . |
| 9 | On coming to power , SWAPO announced an ambitious programme of educational expansion , to provide ten years of schooling for all Namibians with English as the official language of instruction . |
| 10 | ‘ I make big scenes for fun , because I adore drama , but I can also wait ten years , wait for the right moment to come . |
| 11 | Probably gon na wait ten years |
| 12 | THE MACC LADS celebrate ten years of writing songs about farting and suchlike with two gigs at London 's Marquee on March 29 and 30 . |
| 13 | ’ On walking home it is doubtful that the companions gave a second glance at Came house , described ten years later by Sir Frederick Treves in Highways and Byways of Dorset as ‘ an unattractive mansion in what is called the' ‘ classic' ’ taste' . |
| 14 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 15 | Nails has ten years to spare over me . |
| 16 | The Government Actuary 's Department prepared a document in 1980 which sets out a suggested basis for making the calculation and this was supplemented ten years later by recommendations from a committee of industrial tribunal chairmen . |
| 17 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 18 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 19 | She had done so ; Rachel had not known how to handle it then , and still did not know ten years later . |
| 20 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 21 | His biggest moment came ten years ago when his marvellous mare Sobarattled up 11 wins , including the valuable Stewards ' Cup at Goodwood . |
| 22 | ‘ You can always dress ten years younger than your age , ’ she told her customers , and she believed it . |
| 23 | Mr Sillars accused the leadership of unravelling ten years of work by party activists — a reference to the SNP decision to vote with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 which led to the taunt ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |
| 24 | At a party to celebrate ten years of marriage to Clem , would you believe ? |
| 25 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 26 | The flats had been built ten years earlier and showed wear badly . |
| 27 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 28 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 29 | She had then bleached his hair along the side and at the temples … and the results , as she had promised , added ten years and more to his age . |
| 30 | The disguise was good and added ten years to him . |