But ten years in prison had taught him realities.

But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

It has not been extirpated by ten years of Communist depersonalization.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

`` He's ten years younger than Ernest.

That house was ten years off his life let himself.

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

that the tremendous volume of General Motors stock hanging over the market for ten years would hamper the efforts of General Motors and other automobile manufacturers to raise equity capital ; ;

And trailers for boats are not what they started out to be ten years ago.

This first test is being leased for ten years but future projects will require at least 15 years.

`` Well, for ten years I've been murdering women.

For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.

`` I seem to remember '', he said, `` that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

He built twenty of these machines ( called pascal's calculator and later pascaline ) in the following ten years.

On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, Nelson was joined off Toulon by a fleet of ten ships of the line and a fourth rate ship.

At the age of ten he became commander of Gaul, following the death of Crispus.

Early in the morning of 30 May 1832 he was shot in the abdomen and died the following morning at ten o ' clock in the Cochin hospital ( probably of peritonitis ) after refusing the offices of a priest.

In the ten volumes of his Seyahatname he describes the following journeys:

By spring 1941, following Himmler's orders, ten concentration camps had been constructed in which inmates were subjected to forced labour.

He built twenty of these machines ( called Pascal's Calculator or Pascaline ) in the following ten years.

The outgoing Board designates the ten members who are the most advanced in atomic energy technology and the remaining three most advanced members from any of the following areas that are not represented by the first ten: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East and South Asia, South East Asia, the Pacific, and the Far East.

In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in ' Purchas's Pilgrimage :' ' Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto: and thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.

The following year ten more were purchased and a new naval air division was created at Johannisthal, near Berlin.

The following year, Enema of the State, the first major-label release by pop punk band Blink-182, reached the top ten and sold four million copies in under twelve months.

This Council decreed that the cardinal electors must meet within ten days of the pope's death, and that they must remain in seclusion until a pope has been elected ; this was prompted by the three-year Sede Vacante following the death of Pope Clement IV in 1268.

The following is a list of the ten largest cities in the country in terms of population, with their population according to the 2007 census.

The first ten issues featured, in order of appearance, the following:

Over the ten years following the McFaddin discovery, more than 72 million barrels ( 11. 4 GL ) of oil were produced, mostly from the newer areas of the field.

The World Tourism Organization reports the following ten countries as the most visited in terms of the number of international travellers.

It gave them their first top ten hit and the album rose to number nineteen in the chart early the following year.

The charterhouse was founded in 1506 ; construction started ten years later, and continued for the following 300 years.