Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] ten years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 2 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 3 | We regretted the decision for the next ten years . |
| 4 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 5 | Obviously , his past-history is back in fashion , after the success of Nirvana and the consequent re-investigation of the last ten years of American punk rock . |
| 6 | If everybody who bought a foreign car in the last ten years had bought a British one instead , there would n't be seventeen per cent unemployment in this area . ’ |
| 7 | I have no illusions about the likelihood of its transforming schools in the next ten years . |
| 8 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 9 | Central government has sunk over 1,200 waterholes in southern and western provinces over the last ten years , and continues to sink about 150 boreholes a year in Lusaka alone . |
| 10 | A shift in the financial management of football over the last ten years has brought a new and more aggressive generation of directors to the forefront of the game . |
| 11 | The Miss Marple Mysteries , featuring Agatha Christie 's elderly sleuth have been sold to 60 countries as diverse as Germany , Zambia , Turkey and Nepal , and is ranked number two in the top 50 bestselling programmes of the last ten years . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 13 | Does the private cultural foundation cover the running costs of the museum for the next ten years ? |
| 14 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 15 | A Saxon and a Norman chapel stood on the site of the present church , which was built by Prior Cantlow in the last ten years of the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | The fashion for tanned skin is the main cause of the doubling of malignant skin cancers in the last ten years . |
| 17 | Mr Li has made it plain that there will be no more special economic zones in the next ten years , and the praise in the communiqué for the Dengist reforms smacks of insincere ritual . |
| 18 | You spoke of personnel at the beginning ; the number of staff on the City Council in the last ten years has doubled . |
| 19 | His work in the last ten years has included extensive work with the Police Service , developing training to assist officers to interview suspects in a more principled and fairer way . |
| 20 | Next , he lost to Bill Cousens after 111 rounds , but instead of being discouraged went on to beat all foes in the next ten years . |
| 21 | Because it it 's it 's it 's a I mean frankly it it gives the impression that this remarkable political force which has governed a democracy longer than any other political f party in history , has somehow or other created a new philosophy in the last ten years . |
| 22 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |
| 23 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 24 | Mr , er a moment ago congratulated the County Council in fact on the success of the strategy in reducing migration over the last ten years or so . |
| 25 | In a review of its work over the first ten years , its chairman , Lord Justice Sellers , claimed that the two institutions ‘ worked side by side in complete harmony and with some mutual assistance ’ . |
| 26 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 27 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 28 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 29 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 30 | More than half the money borrowed by Mexico , Venezuela and Argentina during the last ten years has effectively flowed out the back door , often in the same year or month it flowed in . |