The Ten Year Itch

On an earlier thread Arthur T raised a question:

Did anyone count the number of times Marr said: "You've had ten years to ..."? To keep repeating an inaccurate figure in this way suggests the red mist had descended and his ability to structure the interview was lost.

Well, to ask another question: in the four years that we've had a Conservative government and the five previous years of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government (totally nine years rather than ten), has Andrew Marr even used the phrase "ten years" so often in a single interview? 

Anyhow, with the aid of the BBC's own transcript of the Boris interview, we can now do that count after all. 

Here are all the uses (by Andrew Marr) of the phrase 'ten years', as per that transcript:

• Your party has been in power for ten years.
• You’ve been in power for ten years! 
• The Conservative Party has been in power for ten years.
• You’ve been in power for ten years.
• You’re in power for ten years and you’ve done nothing about it in ten years.
• For ten years you’ve done nothing about it.
• In ten years you’ve done nothing about it.
• For ten years you have done nothing about it.
• For ten years you’ve done nothing to change the system or toughen it.
• You’ve had ten years in government to get this regime for violent criminal terrorists right and as a government you have patently failed that.
• You had ten years in office to do something about it and you didn’t. Ten years.
• Let’s look at what happened to him in the last ten years where he was in the last ten years which is in the prison system which has been.
• It’s not a new Conservative administration; it is the Conservative Party which has been in power for ten years.
• Do you know how many magistrates and crown courts you have closed as a party in the last ten years?
• So you freezed (sic) it for ten years now you say we should be grateful cos it’s ending?
• We need to see some progress don’t we because after ten years there’s been...

So the answer to Arthur T's question is 16 times. And the total number of times the phrase 'ten years' was used is 19 times.

I've a feeling that Andrew Marr was pursuing a bit of an angle here!