Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 2 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 3 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
| 4 | So for ten minutes an innocent young lady was held up on her journey to work as a photographer issued instructions . |
| 5 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 6 | Greenpeace , the World Wildlife Fund and the International Fund for Animal Welfare are the three international organisations , the prime organisations , which have worked closely together for ten years , but with help from many local and national bodies . |
| 7 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 8 | As you yourself said , on Sunday , we have acted together for ten years and never had a quarrel , although we have had many a grave difference on questions of policy . |
| 9 | Until just before the First World War , a strong decoction containing sarsaparilla , calomel , cinnabar , anise , fennel , senna , and liquorice was warmed up and taken in quart doses daily for ten days . |
| 10 | I 'm to take one 10mg tablet daily for ten days , starting tomorrow , and the lumps on my body should begin to subside . |
| 11 | Only worth ten pounds then . |
| 12 | I might slacken off when I got established — perhaps after ten years or so . |
| 13 | I wrote back saying , get on with it , and incidentally we overestimated the shipment cost , brought it down to about half , got to be awfully careful there , because some of these bits are so big , they , and today he said , customer will make decision only after ten days , since final size of assortment is under preparation , meantime with your offered price and revised delivery time , it looks very difficult to book this order . |
| 14 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 15 | Where a key is a long number , consisting perhaps of ten digits , but we only have 8000 records and hence need only to allocate 10 000 storage positions , we could use the last four digits of the key as a storage address . |
| 16 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 17 | The sea temperature in Shetland never gets much above ten degrees Celsius even in summer , which does n't encourage prolonged immersion without the protection of a wet-suit . |
| 18 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |
| 19 | A woman protestant was appointed as county librarian , but when the county library committee met to ratify the appointment , it refused to do so by ten votes to two . |
| 20 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Pa bought it at Faversham market where the man gave it away for ten pounds . |
| 22 | ‘ But you were only away for ten minutes . ’ |
| 23 | The same sort of ‘ business ’ that was taking him away for ten days . |
| 24 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
| 25 | Yeah that 's what I mean , could you put a tourniquet on just for ten minutes to try and get help ? |
| 26 | And — just for ten minutes , ten or fifteen minutes , and the others stay with me , and we 'll just try our hands at a couple of |
| 27 | Just , just be quiet just for ten seconds ! |
| 28 | There had been no sound outside for ten minutes . |
| 29 | I was away in ten minutes . |
| 30 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |