Example sentences of "ten years and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paton was also banned from driving for ten years and fined £100 on separate driving charges to which he had pled guilty earlier . |
| 2 | She says that it could take at least ten years and cost a considerable amount of cash . |
| 3 | These included removing dozens of military officers and all 14 Supreme Court judges , approving radical judicial reforms , banning everyone cited for rights abuses from public office for ten years and setting up a compensation fund for victims of the war . |
| 4 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 5 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 6 | Since di Stefano comes from Liverpool , it is appropriate that there should be a survey of his art , thirty-four paintings , seven large woodcuts and other graphic works , spanning the last ten years and taking place at the Walker Art Gallery ( 29 January-14 March ) , which has been curated by Alex Kidson . |
| 7 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 8 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 9 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 10 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 11 | Other ingredients in the exhibition include a series of reworked pictures decorated with dead flowers , a group of vitrines containing small tableaux which correspond to the imagery of his paintings , and a survey of watercolours created during the last ten years and encompassing the familiar iconography of Valhallas and palettes with wings . |
| 12 | BG has claimed that the Ofgas plan could cost £3 billion over ten years and cause widespread disruption to the business during the transition period . |
| 13 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 14 | Several of the articles in this important collection produced over the last ten years and gathered together in this volume for the first time , focus particularly on ordinary femininity . |
| 15 | For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines . |
| 16 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |
| 17 | Although CD-A has only been available commercially since 1983 , we can estimate its likely performance over ten years and use a mix of actual and projected penetrations in our analysis . |
| 18 | Type 2 : Semi-specialist machinery which is expected to be productive for ten years and have a residual value of 10% of its original cost . |
| 19 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |
| 20 | She worked as a councillor for more than ten years and has campaigned on issues such as the environment , recycling , and nuclear dumping . |
| 21 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 22 | But it was an occasion for spectators rather than bidders and only two lots exceeded expectations , Eric Gill 's fine , if slightly sweet , stone carving , ‘ Mother and Child ’ ( lot 20 , est. £25,000–35,000 ) , described by the auction house as his most important sculpture to come to the market for ten years and bought by a telephone bidder against the Fine Art Society for £56,000 ( $85,680 ) , and Graham Sutherland 's boldly coloured ‘ Palm Palisade ’ ( lot 88 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) which was acquired by Agnews for £68,000 ( $104,040 ) after competition with private dealers Ivor Braka and underbidder Jamie Maclean . |
| 23 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 24 | for a period of five or ten years and lease it off them and then have to maintain it . |
| 25 | Ranging over ten years and introducing a large number of characters , it managed to remain gripping , coherent , a lavish explication of family loyalties and obligation . |
| 26 | We have seen too much of this happening during the last ten years and believe it is time to tighten constraints through the use of various mechanisms including statutory Green Belts . |