Example sentences of "ten year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not refer to the events of ten years past , of course it could n't . |
| 2 | The territorial spread and regional significance , up to 30 miles or so beyond the LCC boundary , now provided the occasion for a planning study of seminal importance , updating that by Unwin of ten years past . |
| 3 | For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " . |
| 4 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 5 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 6 | A national teachers ' seminar in 1975 produced an evaluation of the education reforms introduced ten years previously under President Kennedy 's Alliance for Progress . |
| 7 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 8 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 9 | A prospective employer 's interest will be focused on the last ten years approximately , so experiences before that can be telescoped into a short sentence or two . |
| 10 | There must be one flag , the Union Jack , but under it equality of races [ i.e. British and Boer ] and languages … but not before a loyal majority is assured ’ ; or again , ‘ if ten years hence there are three men of British race to two of Dutch , the country will be safe and prosperous ; if there are three of Dutch to two of British , we shall have perpetual difficulty ’ . |
| 11 | When she 's married ten years hence , she 'll compare her husband 's performance with yours and he 'll come off worse — every time . |
| 12 | 5 Ten years hence … 38 |
| 13 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 14 | Since I was eighteen I 've been writing , ten years already , and so what ? |
| 15 | Changing Places , published in 1975 , is set in 1969 ; when Zapp reappears in a later novel , Small World , set ten years later , he has changed his attitudes , in accordance with major shifts in the Zeitgeist . |
| 16 | Ten years later Professor Marsh was asked why the faculty refused to elect Ramsey to a lectureship . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 19 | She had done so ; Rachel had not known how to handle it then , and still did not know ten years later . |
| 20 | Ten years later in Oyo State , which has a total of about 100,000 farming families , nearly half of the land area had been planted with the new variety which out-yields the local varieties by about 25 per cent . |
| 21 | Nine or ten years later , it is stripped again , and so on for more than 150 years . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 23 | Edward Knoyle inherited the manor in 1533 , and probably set about building this mullioned and gabled beauty about ten years later around a humble medieval hall . |
| 24 | ’ On walking home it is doubtful that the companions gave a second glance at Came house , described ten years later by Sir Frederick Treves in Highways and Byways of Dorset as ‘ an unattractive mansion in what is called the' ‘ classic' ’ taste' . |
| 25 | Laszlo was indomitably trying to learn English , and when Jane saw him again , ten years later , he had still not progressed beyond the first book , now old and tattered . |
| 26 | About ten years later , in 1980 I think , I revisited Salamanca , on my way back from Lisbon . |
| 27 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 28 | Ten years later , after the death of Berlioz' second wife , with whom he had been living before Harriet 's death , he was obliged to disinter Marriet 's remains , because of the closure of the small cemetery in Montmartre where she was buried . |
| 29 | It does follow on from those 2-Tone ideals , and it 's funny that , ten years later , the ideals are still more or less intact . ’ |
| 30 | Ten years later there would be four hundred Americans with an annual income like hers , of over a million dollars . |