Example sentences of "[num ord] 10 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orders for the second 10 years , by which time the capital costs of THORP will also have been recovered , are coming in steadily with more than 40 per-cent capacity sold to Germany , Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear . |
| 2 | Jim Makin , Bill Mellor , Michael Hardman and Graham Lees celebrate the first 10 years . |
| 3 | THE first 10 years after Dubcek 's fall were terrible for everyone , ’ he says . |
| 4 | The maximum early encashment payment within the first 10 years of your Bond is restricted by law to a return of your contributions . |
| 5 | For graduates in the first 10 years after graduation . |
| 6 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 7 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 8 | For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years . |
| 9 | Our treatment policies in this age group were conservative , particularly in the first 10 years . |
| 10 | For the first 10 years of its existence , AEA drove forward all aspects of nuclear power in the UK , including the development of weapons and the exploitation of radioisotopes . |
| 11 | The great success of AEA 's first 10 years suggested that the research requirements of nuclear power would decline . |
| 12 | For the first 10 years of the Government , the cry that used to come from the Dispatch Box was that the economy was in a mess because of strikes by workers . |
| 13 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 14 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 15 | The first 10 years ' capacity of 7,000 tonnes of spent fuel is taken up and full provision for the decommissioning of all THORP facilities will have been covered during this period . |
| 16 | But for the first 10 years , HCFC-141B is about half as damaging to the ozone layer as the CFC . |
| 17 | Documents published by BNFL state that the plant will earn £950 million for the UK and £1,800 million for BNFL in its first 10 years , but contain no comparison of the cost of reprocessing with that of storage of nuclear waste , or any assessment of the revenue BNFL could earn from storage of its customers ' waste . |
| 18 | * A report submitted as part of the public consultations on THORP says that an extra 200 fatal cancers and 10,000 skin cancers will be caused by the first 10 years of discharges from the plant . |
| 19 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 20 | ‘ This makes the church sensitive to the needs of those areas and that section of the population which has not benefited from the last 10 years of Conservative government , ’ he says , claiming that there is ‘ no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’ |
| 22 | It was the kind of socialism that insisted the NHS was not split up or sold off , that resented the injustice of the poll tax , and opposed the centralisation , control and censorship which had eroded civil liberties over the last 10 years . |
| 23 | He is the first or second greatest miler in the last 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 25 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 26 | The Daily Telegraph has slipped into decline over the last 10 years , losing more than a million readers ( 3.59 million in 1980 ; 2.55 million 1989 ) . |
| 27 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 28 | It was what one did with wealth that counted , and in the last 10 years voluntary giving had doubled . |
| 29 | There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire . |
| 30 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |