Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 And of course his own , then , nearly ten years ago Virgin bought its first plane .
32 Ten years ago London was the despair of the Labour movement .
33 Ten years ago AT&T supplied all of America 's exchange-switches .
34 Ten years ago Assistance Publique established a technology assessment process for the whole system , which assesses the cost effectiveness of new innovations before they are introduced and helps to rationalise their introduction within the system .
35 Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones .
36 I did it ten years ago c .
37 Ten years ago Eiichi Kono , a Japanese designer based in London , spent 18 months redrawing the face used on the London Underground .
38 Ten years ago director of Specialised Housing Inc David Wazansky was a social worker and director of clinical services at Dynamic Action Residents Enterprise Inc , a voluntary agency involved with fostering and housing for children and adults .
39 ‘ But more than ten years ago Henry Jekyll became too — well , imaginative for me .
40 Over ten years ago Breton and Wintrobe warned that ‘ it is not clear that the behaviour of bureaucrats would be and what kind of models we would be churning out if government revenues were not increasing automatically ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1975 , p. 205 ) .
41 Table 9.2 shows that for nearly ten years now voters have agreed about her strength of personality and outspokenness .
42 The financial decision is taken , in the light of current market conditions , to issue stock redeemable in equal annual instalments of principal and interest over the ten years following completion of the bridge .
43 Ten years earlier Unwin had faced the alternative to London 's outward spread : either a continuous zone of free entry at varying degrees of density , its continuity broken by areas of public open space ; or a continuous green background as the setting for occasional development .
44 Lawrence said : ‘ I said ten days ago Blackburn would run away with the championship .
45 Ten days ago police released drawings of two male suspects .
46 Valmontone — the castle with its lands , the palace and houses — was purchased in 1207 and ten days later Manases did homage for the fief to the papal chamberlain , Stephen of Fossanova .
47 Ten days later Ricky and Perdita left for Argentina .
48 Ten days later Jack Williamson , as the owner of the boat , received a bill from the Canadian government requesting immediate payment of $15. as the cost of one six-pound shell fired across our bows that evening .
49 Ten miles away Miami Vice star Don Johnson emerged from the Hyatt Regency to join rescue work .
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