Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 2 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | So ten times something gave us three sixty ten times what ? |
| 4 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 5 | Natural gas contains up to 95 per cent methane , a gas with a high calorific value which requires ten times its own volume of air for complete combustion . |
| 6 | Professor Robert E. Ornstein of the University of California , a recognised expert in left and right brain research , has proved that when you develop the second side of your brain you actually enhance your mental powers by anything from five to ten times its previous level . |
| 7 | The River Avon , having swollen to ten times its usual size , floods Hilperton , near Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 8 | Bids for an oak standing court cabinet made in Flanders around 1520 rose to a startling FFr2.5 million ( £259,800 ; $425,000 ) , ten times its low estimate and another world record , while a more richly decorated and rich hued world cupboard with grotesque masks , Anjou work around 1600 , went for a modest FFr400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) ( estimate FFr200–250,000 ) . |
| 9 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |
| 10 | As a rule of thumb , the radioactivity of an element has usually disappeared ( has reached 0.1 per cent of the original value ) after an equivalent period of ten times its half-life ( Bach , 1972 ) . |
| 11 | Now , assuming the pension costs ten times its value , the cost at age 65 is £17,000 x 10 = £170,000 . |
| 12 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 13 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 14 | Although this probably represented ten times what she would normally expect she displayed no emotion as she accepted it . |
| 15 | A valor of Crown lands put the rents of Great Woolstone at £6. 13s. 4d. , or ten times what the survey states ; at North Crawley rents were £11. 12s. 9d. compared with 2s . |
| 16 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 17 | So ten times something gave us three sixty ten times what ? |
| 18 | maintains that the actual sums collected by these agents were sometimes as much as ten times what the government received . |
| 19 | But seriously they want ten times whatever ! |
| 20 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |
| 21 | Ten times he went into Test battle with them , winning once in 1977 in a Lions ' jersey , and his experience and example will be crucial when the revamped , and increasingly successful , Gwent side meet the tourists in 13 days time . |
| 22 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 23 | It 's ten times itself minus three times . |
| 24 | It 's just ten times itself |
| 25 | An energy source which could potentially supply up to ten times our energy needs for several thousand years is called an indefinitely sustainable energy source . |
| 26 | We can the the constant is no problem we can always if we 've got ten times it five times it minus point six times it |
| 27 | Not content with the ten operations she has already had , Orlan is now looking for sponsors for her next operation . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough was one of ten clubs which had taken out promotion policies totalling £2m . |
| 29 | For about ten minutes everything was quiet , but suddenly I heard a noise on my side of the moat . |
| 30 | The fact is that every ten minutes somebody in Great Britain is seriously injured in an accident . |