Example sentences of "[conj] [art] tenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | either the ninth or the tenth , it could be held here it could be held at Havstock Park . |
| 2 | It is an out-and-back course where the tenth tee is farthest from the clubhouse . |
| 3 | Assuming , that is , that its orbit is not anomalous : one intriguing notion has been that the tenth planet does not orbit the Sun in the same plane as all the others ; instead it goes ‘ up and over ’ . |
| 4 | Moreover I have given order that they who collect my dues take from you no more than the tenth , because so it is appointed by the custom of the Moors , and it is what ye have been wont to pay . |
| 5 | No options may be granted later than the tenth anniversary of the Scheme . |
| 6 | The lane came into existence for this special purpose not later than the tenth century : in no other way can we explain its peculiar and limited course . |
| 7 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 8 | Pluto appeared tiny right from the start ; it is now known to have a mass only 0.2 per cent that of Earth , far too small to have caused the irregularities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune attributed to Planet X. A dedicated group of astronomers have maintained that a tenth planet is required . |
| 9 | It could be , for instance , that every tenth house in a street coincides with a building plan which has larger houses at intervals and these are over-sampled . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 11 | They cost around £50 a piece , less than a tenth the cost of the gas lasers . |
| 12 | Soft drink sales last year were £115million , less than a tenth of the group 's revenue . |
| 13 | Back at the start of this century , more than a tenth of Travancore 's adults were literate , twice the rate of the whole of the subcontinent . |
| 14 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 15 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 16 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 17 | The study , by the Greater Glasgow Health Board , revealed that more than a tenth of all newborn babies in Glasgow entered the world with more lead in their blood than is considered safe for adults … |
| 18 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 19 | Their actual dimensions were , in many cases , not much smaller than those of equivalent modern aircraft , but their weights were less than a tenth of modern , hard-skinned machines . |
| 20 | These extremes of wealth and poverty apparently inseparable from corn-and-sheep husbandry did not exist in most pastoral regions , where , as a rule , little more than a tenth of all wealth belonged to men worth £50 or more . |
| 21 | The index of the city 's wealth is its contribution of £1,704 to the subsidy , which , although far ahead of that of any other provincial town , was only slightly more than a tenth of London 's £16675 . |
| 22 | Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes . |
| 23 | The average separation between the stars at its centre is no more than a tenth of a light-year . |
| 24 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 25 | Tolerance was voiced by less than a sixth of male interviewees and less than a tenth of the female . |
| 26 | Even the best display systems currently available are pushing the limits to reach 150 dots per inch , half the resolution of a page printer and less than a tenth that of a typesetter . |
| 27 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 28 | From this disparity in rates , Professor Norman Newell deduced that these Cretaceous and Tertiary limestones represent no more than a tenth of Cretaceous and Caenozoic times . |
| 29 | The proportion of employers with a training budget has increased by more than a tenth in the last year alone . |
| 30 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |