Example sentences of "in 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | As well as the traditional cotton pique polo style shirt ( which comes in 10 colours ) , there are cap sleeve blouses for the women ; and alongside the classic short , there are culottes , wide box pleated and wrap over skirts . |
| 3 | In the gym the weights must be light and movements explosive ; for example you could see how many repetitions you can perform in 10 seconds and then try to beat that amount . |
| 4 | Under the community charge rules , the normal payment plan will be for the charge to be paid in 10 monthly instalments . |
| 5 | Available in 10 colours . |
| 6 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood ; there 's little point in fitting an indestructible door in a frame that could rot in 10 years ) , and come with either a silvery finish or a factory-applied coating in a limited range of colours . |
| 7 | There , in a frenzy of violence , he reduced the standard lamp to a table lamp in 10 seconds flat ! |
| 8 | Knowles , in the final year of a three-year contract , decided to resign on Saturday after the team lost for the eighth time in 10 games . |
| 9 | Members of the Ukrainian State Dancers , founded 50 years ago , display their skills before the start of their first British nationwide tour in 10 years . |
| 10 | Mr Delors is expected to develop the theme when he gives a speech to the College of Europe in Bruges in 10 days . |
| 11 | ‘ In 10 years things change so much , and it is difficult to name one player . |
| 12 | If walking down streets teeming with non-residents induces mild panic , or if it strikes you as undignified to whizz around a museum in 10 minutes , because entry is part of the combination ticket you have bought from the tourist office , then forget Bruges . |
| 13 | As for the flowers , the Dutch delegation will be calling for a total ban on trade in some rare slipper orchids , which they say face extinction in 10 years unless something drastic is done . |
| 14 | In fact you are being invited to invest in 10 separate companies each with different characteristics and ambitions . |
| 15 | According to the US Mortgage Bankers ' Association , the number of homeowners more than 30 days behind in their repayments fell in the second quarter of the year to its lowest level in 10 years . |
| 16 | ‘ In 10 years , it wo n't be Crystal Palace but it may be Southern League , Division Seven . ’ |
| 17 | At a meeting with Opposition leaders in 10 Downing Street later that night , he appeared resistant to Chamberlain 's pleas that he remain . |
| 18 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 19 | In West Germany , up to one in 10 of the population is said to suffer . |
| 20 | Only three in 10 were diet ignorers compared with more than half the men . |
| 21 | Watch out , hay fever season is approaching — and one in 10 of us will be affected . |
| 22 | The international at Lansdowne Road in 10 days could be traumatic for Ireland , whose only successes since January 1988 have been achieved against weak opposition which , oddly enough , includes Wales at the Arms Park last February . |
| 23 | As Western governments struggle from decision to decision , making up instant policies as they react , the need is for vision and imagination : a willingness to think the previously unthinkable , to sort out in their minds what sort of Europe they would like to have created in 10 years ' time . |
| 24 | In 10 games he has scored 136 points , the most in the land by some way . |
| 25 | Crewe 's 2-1 win over Mansfield was their first in 10 games but they cut it fine , Cutler scoring the winner two minutes from time . |
| 26 | Most nurseries write off one in 10 plants , for failing to germinate , thrive or being destroyed by pests . |
| 27 | But figures produced for 13 years by the Dundonald nursery show that the nursey created one in 10 new plants every year instead . |
| 28 | Eight in 10 women surveyed said that they would use ‘ natural ’ remedies and considered pharmacists as effective as doctors in treating minor ills . |
| 29 | ‘ But he is probably safer now than he will be in 10 years ’ time . |
| 30 | Only a quarter tolerated the common misapprehension whereby to decimate has ceased to mean , as in the Roman legions , to slaughter one in 10 . |