Example sentences of "[adj] ten years " in BNC.
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| 31 | Coronation Street began in 1960 but , as any fule kno , it did n't catch its stride for a good ten years . |
| 32 | The word gink seemed a good ten years too young to bear thinking about . |
| 33 | a good ten years |
| 34 | Well it 's never been serviced since the day we bought it and that must be a good ten years ago . |
| 35 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 36 | When she 's married ten years hence , she 'll compare her husband 's performance with yours and he 'll come off worse — every time . |
| 37 | married ten years ago , . |
| 38 | ‘ Levels that were thought safe ten years ago are now considered highly dangerous . |
| 39 | And , lastly , the S2 's galvanized bodyshell is guaranteed a full ten years against corrosion . |
| 40 | Of course , Hodder 's table reflects a concept very close to the familiar annuity-depreciation method — the only difference being that the latter method would spread depreciation over the full ten years of the asset 's life . |
| 41 | This pessimistic view as to enforcement is supported by a letter of Pliny , in which he laments the fact that the monument to Verginius Rufus , who died in AD 97 , was still incomplete ten years after his death , not because of construction difficulties , but purely because of the inertia of the person supposed to build it . |
| 42 | It is now regularly available at their surgery as part of free NHS care , a situation which would have been inconceivable ten years ago . |
| 43 | But it had no relevance , and its guardians remained mute ten years ago , when bombs , with the United States ' and allied governments ' blessing , fell like rain on women and children in Cambodia ( Shawcross 1979 ) , or when the same governments aid and support other political/military regimes exercising mass terror and partial genocide against a subjugated people ( Chomsky and Herman 1979a , 1979b ) . |
| 44 | But Price , who has been waiting for his first major title since blowing the British Open ten years ago , said : ‘ I learned from his example , watching his Open triumph at Muirfield . ’ |
| 45 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 46 | This clinging to authority has , in my experience , become noticeable in graduate students and young academics in the past ten years or so . |
| 47 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 48 | But the system does not , so far , recognise brain injury , despite the enormous advances over the past ten years in the study of cognitive , behavioural and memory problems . ’ |
| 49 | Mr Erik Sondén , the managing director of SIPA , points out that in the tiny Swedish market values of investment properties have gone only one way over the past ten years : up . |
| 50 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 51 | All of this happened during the past ten years . |
| 52 | Despite the changes of the past ten years or so , there is little sign in France of an active takeover market . |
| 53 | The 1991 season promises at least seven big-studio releases by black directors , more than in the past ten years . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The Kroll investigation also found that over the past ten years some $10 billion had either been salted away in banks or used to buy shares of western companies . |
| 56 | Although the public subsidy has been halved in the past ten years , the growth of passenger traffic has stalled with the recession . |
| 57 | In the past ten years P&G has dealt with 150,000 letters and telephone-calls about satanism and soap powder . |
| 58 | The history of the past ten years has seen Labour consistently oppose any change inside the health service and , even more regrettably , has often seen groups inside it resist reform on the grounds that their vested interests are being challenged . |
| 59 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 60 | Yes , probably , but it did not lessen her joy in the past ten years of leisured , ladylike existence and in the arrival of innumerable small parcels . |