Example sentences of "a good ten [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will find that a large proportion of them need a good ten inches between shelves , not forgetting that there must be ample room for them to be gently eased out and not hooked by the headband . |
| 2 | For all her vitality , Faye was only five feet four inches tall , while Tom was a good ten inches taller . |
| 3 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 4 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 5 | They knocked for a good ten minutes before giving up but it was obvious that the place was deserted . |
| 6 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 7 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 8 | They were a good ten minutes arguing over what it meant , even calling in the senior officer on duty , who spoke a little English . |
| 9 | ‘ Deus venerunt gentes ’ is long a good ten minutes if you sing all four sections ; the ranges of its five-part scoring lie less comfortably for modern choirs , and its vocal lines are technically demanding ; the harrowing text makes it an unlikely choice for church use ; the piece has never been published except as part of a library edition ; it takes stamina and capable direction to make a convincing interpretation out of it ; and since it hardly ever gets a hearing , only the adventurous know of its existence . |
| 10 | Sasse , as it is generally known , is the oldest secondary school in the Cameroon Republic by a good ten years . |
| 11 | We 've been doing it so long now ( a good ten years , maybe ) that we have turned into what we do . |
| 12 | They enjoy earthworms , shrimps and pellet food and will live for a good ten years or more if they 're cared for correctly . |
| 13 | Coronation Street began in 1960 but , as any fule kno , it did n't catch its stride for a good ten years . |
| 14 | The word gink seemed a good ten years too young to bear thinking about . |
| 15 | a good ten years |
| 16 | Well it 's never been serviced since the day we bought it and that must be a good ten years ago . |
| 17 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |