Example sentences of "ten years [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 2 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 3 | Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order . |
| 4 | Ten years ago I had four dependent relatives , I took both my parents and parents-in-law into the one house the fathers are now both dead , and I still have both the mothers . |
| 5 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 6 | Ten years ago I started my business . |
| 7 | And then ten years ago I started my own company er started in a very small way to begin with . |
| 8 | This was many years ago now ab ten years ago I guess , so I went and saw and of course , erm Mr was dead and his son was running it and had sold his shares . |
| 9 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |