Example sentences of "of the [adj] 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-election nerves in the City last week left the performance of the remaining 10 Questor Selection shares looking distinctly patchy . |
| 2 | Former champion Alex Higgins and young pretender Alan McManus were involved in a high speed , high quality battle at the £850,000 Embassy World Championships at Preston last night with Higgins requiring six of the remaining 10 frames to earn a fourth round meeting against Robert Marshall or Brian Rowswell . |
| 3 | The seismic data which show that dust or fractured rock constitute much of the outer 10 or 20 km of the Moon apply also to the maria . |
| 4 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 5 | It is not by any means inconceivable that it could upset most of the other 10 . |
| 6 | Most of the other 10 queens are on European thrones , but the thin blue-blooded line reaches as far as Queen Aishwarya of Nepal , and Queen Mata-aho of Tonga . |
| 7 | As such it undermined the defences of the other 10 who faced charges arising from the affair and who , like Shinto , had argued that the shares did not constitute a form of bribery . |
| 8 | Only 343 cases were diagnosed and reported in 1991 ( provisional data ) in men aged 15 years or over , fewer than in any of the preceding 10 years . |
| 9 | Born in Chongqing in 1946 , the daughter of a revolutionary martyr , she was adopted by the family of Ye Jianying , one of the famous 10 marshals of the People 's Liberation Army . |
| 10 | The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it . |
| 11 | The Department of Environment also announced yesterday that it had abandoned the system it has used for most of the past 10 years to channel extra housing cash into the 57 worst affected inner-city areas . |
| 12 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 13 | Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years . |
| 14 | Indeed the bibliography has only 15 references to material of the past 10 years . |
| 15 | In contrast , our simulations were designed for cold winters and indeed the zonal mean temperatures in the lower stratosphere for two of the past 10 years ( 1984 , 1989 ) were similar to the 330-p.p.m.v. results presented here . |
| 16 | Let us not forget the experience of the past 10 years , during which time we have had more experience of guillotine motions than in the whole of the previous history of Parliament . |
| 17 | Inevitably a disastrous harvest followed — one-fifth below the average for those of the previous 10 years — and prices almost doubled . |
| 18 | Seven of the top 10 places in the table went to banks which had a role in the BAT bid . |
| 19 | Tony Tucker , Tony Tubbs , James Smith and Trevor Berbick have all tumbled out of the top 10 and Biggs is now ranked 27th . |
| 20 | The leading British driver is Malcolm Wilson , whose Opel was just out of the top 10 last night in 11th place , two minutes ahead of Gwyndaf Evans in his Ford Sierra in 12th place . |
| 21 | Buying was dealer dominated , with a London dealer scooping up three of the top 10 lots in the second session . |
| 22 | Within about a year of the company 's formation and Taylor 's strategic review , Medeva had become the UK market leader in two of its four chosen fields and one of the top 10 suppliers to the NHS . |
| 23 | It acknowledges its position as a London Landmark ( and one of the top 10 London tourist attractions ) in hosting dozens of product launches , promoting goods ranging from books , colour transparencies and magazines to washing machines . |
| 24 | Dr Bellamy gave a spirited call for the preservation of an area he considers to be one of the top 10 botanical sites in the world and told how he had sat in the rainforest imagining he was a dinosaur . |
| 25 | Two of the top 10 data-processing firms in Japan are numbered among these subsidiaries : Nippon Business Consultants and Hitachi Software Engineering ( HSE ) . |
| 26 | JOAN Collins , recently named one of the top 10 sexiest women of all time , flew into London from Argentina yesterday with just one thing on her mind — bed . |
| 27 | Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 28 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 29 | Most of the top 10 hardware companies suffered from the recession . |
| 30 | Only the gorilla is particularly close to us in evolutionary terms ( though all of the top 10 animals are mammals ) , but many of the other favourites are distinctly humanoid in appearance , either because they sometimes stand upright , such as otters and polar bears , or because they have vaguely human-like faces . |