Example sentences of "for the [adj] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 2 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 3 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 4 | For the first ten weeks they will spend one hour a week on induction training with their supervisor . |
| 5 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 6 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 7 | Term of loans from the IDA are more favourable than those demanded by the IBRD and can be up to fifty years with repayments deferred for the first ten years , with no interest charges . |
| 8 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 9 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 10 | well , for the first ten minutes , anyway … ’ ) |
| 11 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 12 | For the first ten years of its existence AEA drove forward all aspect of nuclear power in the UK , and when the Windscale AGR was started up in 1962 it was at the forefront of reactor design . |
| 13 | The martyrdom of Husain , as the Karbala episode is usually described , is commemorated early in each Muslim New Year for the first ten days of the month of Muharram : in Shiite communities men form processions , bare to the waist , beating themselves with whips and chains until their bodies run with blood , chanting a recitation of the events of 680 . |
| 14 | Behind a grid , there is strong turbulent energy production for the first ten or so grid mesh-lengths along the tunnel ; the turbulence then becomes substantially isotropic and decays with distance down the tunnel . |
| 15 | For the first ten minutes of the second half , we started playing a bit ( but at this time we needed 4 goals to go thorough ) and Whelan scored after a good cross by Kelly . |
| 16 | The cost of care for the first ten years from now on was taken by Mr on his calculations to amount to two hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence , using a multiplier of four and a multiplicand of fifty three thousand four hundred and sixty pounds and ninety eight pence . |
| 17 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 18 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 19 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 20 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 21 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 22 | But there is no word that Saddam Hussein is ready to return to his own people the $10 billion he is accused of looting from them by skimming Iraq 's oil revenue for the past ten years and taking kickbacks from foreign contractors . |
| 23 | I 've been a virgin for the past ten years . |
| 24 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 25 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 26 | Sister Linda Buckland , who has been at the General for the past ten years , expressed mixed emotions . |
| 27 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 28 | The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years . |
| 29 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 30 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |