Example sentences of "ten [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ . |
| 2 | There was one certainly in the docks in my time where , er quite a nasty fire in the docks , one of the warehouse buildings there was , was going very well erm a ten , ten or so pump was on , on that job . |
| 3 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She squinted in bewilderment at the ten or so boarders who had formed her little band of helpers . |
| 6 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 7 | Leyland 's own collection of oriental porcelain was dispersed at the time of his death and , apart from ten or so pieces , the shelves had remained empty until now . |
| 8 | Parentally condoned absenteeism can , according to research studies over the past ten or so years , account for as much as 50–75 per cent of non-excused absenteeism . |
| 9 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 10 | If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates . |
| 11 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 12 | During the ten or so years leading up to the inauguration of Channel Four in 1982 many proposals were considered but there seemed to be a degree of agreement amongst those favouring a novel form of organization that allocating the ‘ fourth channel ’ to the commercial sector would only |
| 13 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 14 | We live in a free market economy which has prospered considerably over the last ten or so years . |
| 15 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 16 | These factors led to a pattern of ‘ top-ten ’ thinking It is repeatedly stated that in each major industry sector — and in the world electronics industry itself — only ten or so world players will survive . |
| 17 | Of the ten or so editions bearing that date and the London imprint ‘ by the Deputies of Christopher Barker ’ ( the Queen 's printer , who held the monopoly of printing Bibles ) most were printed abroad in centres such as Amsterdam and Dort and , probably , later than 1599 . |
| 18 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 19 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 20 | And I 'd refer you to paragraph three ten and also paragraph four two two which I 'd like to quote a short erm element from . |