Example sentences of "[adj] for ten year " in BNC.

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1 The Hill of Dreams , one of the period 's most remarkable and decadent novels , was completed in 1897 but remained unpublished for ten years .
2 Leave that for ten years . ’
3 And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down .
4 That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it !
5 When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village .
6 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 .
7 But they have written to one another for ten years , hardly knowing why , and perhaps have found the greater satisfaction in it because it is a luxury , not the fulfilment of a need .
8 The option is expressed and remained effective for ten years .
9 Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time .
10 Now I have been married for ten years .
11 The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring .
12 But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years .
13 BT has agreed not to increase its stake in MCI for ten years and , in any case , America 's regulators prevent any foreign investor from holding more than 25% of an American firm 's voting shares .
14 This is without boosting his monthly payments at all for ten years .
15 Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son .
16 Instead unemployment in January was the highest for ten years and economic recovery still a long way off .
17 Unemployment in the Darlington travel to work area in January this year was the highest for ten years at 5,229 or 10.5 per cent .
18 Petrol prices are set to go up again ; traders in the world oil market still worrying over a war in the Gulf , today pushed their prices to their highest for ten years , at more than forty dollars a barrel .
19 Its revival at the Greenwich Theatre , the first for ten years , sounds and looks , however , a bit disappointing .
20 AN ATTEMPT to inflate the historical nugget of Shane into one vast indictment of America , this symptomatic disaster also served to gun down the Western for ten years .
21 ‘ She wo n't be ready for ten years . ’
22 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 .
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