Example sentences of "[noun sg] about ten years " in BNC.

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1 I think what I 'll do , you 've got about forty minutes of it today , you 'll get Carl Rogers working with a client called er and then we 'll stop there and then next week you 'll see the er the next behaviourist called er called erm Arnold Lazarus , okay , who you might wan he 's got a book called Multi Modal Therapy which was a big hit about ten years ago and there 's about five copies in the library .
2 ‘ It was done on a manual Adler typewriter , a machine about ten years old .
3 erm The Department of Trade and Industry stepped into this business about ten years ago and because there was a situation where there was no re-insurance , but when the company that was actually selling the policy when into liquidation erm there was no redress for the policy holder .
4 If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances .
5 ‘ My co-writer Gerard Brown and I actually got the idea for Juice about ten years ago .
6 Paula explains : ‘ I did make a conscious decision about ten years ago .
7 North set ignore the map I think it is erm very important the map , I saw this outline about ten years ago , erm and , and neither has the fast
8 And , then that famous man who died just recently , Finniston was asked to er , present a report to the government about ten years ago , in which he was going to knock the heads together again and try to get some kind of er organisation which would actually get the institutions to cooperate and coordinate their activities and that was the beginning of the Engineering Council .
9 She wrote , The Love and Lives of the She Devil , and she 's written it , she wrote it especially for The Orange Tree Theatre about ten years ago , and now she 's re-doing it ,
10 Edward Knoyle inherited the manor in 1533 , and probably set about building this mullioned and gabled beauty about ten years later around a humble medieval hall .
11 I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre .
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