Example sentences of "the [num ord] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 2 | Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 . |
| 3 | ‘ The army will have them all in barracks before we have saved the first ten men ! ’ |
| 4 | Intensive road testing of the first ten Class 91s started in the spring of 1988 and the first public services with the new Mk 4 stock started between King 's Cross and Leeds in October 1989 . |
| 5 | By May 1990 — after delivery of the first ten sets of the new Mk 4 stock for the East Coast main line — the Great Western will receive an additional HST set and sufficient trailers to make all HST formations 2 + 8 . |
| 6 | The Independent can offer ten pairs of free tickets for Mon 9 Oct to the first ten readers who phone 01-436 0605 today ( between 10am and 10.30am only ) with the answer to the following question : which film is A Little Night Music based on ? |
| 7 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 8 | Gunthorpe with the exception of the first ten pegs which are giving 10 to 15 lb of roach the rest appear devoid of fish , Shelford for fish around Stoke Ferry land end and pleasure anglers getting 30 lb plus nets on stick and maggot . |
| 9 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 10 | ‘ The first ten years are the worst , ’ he heard someone say , and he turned , suddenly nettled . |
| 11 | These had to be answered , and answered well — or at least the first ten or so did — because the original questioner and other MPs were allowed to ask supplementary questions . |
| 12 | More than 226,000 new private businesses registered in eastern Germany in the first ten months of last year . |
| 13 | Nothing came of his enquiries and the first ten days of October passed uneventfully with his praise of Helen 's ‘ lovely portion of that maidenliness which you shall never lose ’ . |
| 14 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 15 | But any doubts about Dick Tracy being the right film at the right time or reservations over whether Breathless Mahoney is the right part for the 31-year-old star are dispelled in the first ten minutes of the movie . |
| 16 | The evidence relating to her father is almost the only approach to much of Mary Leapor 's life , certainly to the first ten years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 19 | So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 . |
| 20 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 21 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 22 | Eventually the total rose to 350 women on the platforms of trams and buses , and at Whit 1940 the first ten motorwomen were trained . |
| 23 | He was strong and his resources of stamina enabled him to play just as forcefully in the final ten minutes of a game as in the first ten . |
| 24 | The only major variation in training was during the first ten days before a new season , when players were not allowed to kick a ball . |
| 25 | There 's a waiting list of three after the first ten and I do n't see why you should n't persuade Ryan to let you be No. 4 on that . |
| 26 | For the first ten weeks they will spend one hour a week on induction training with their supervisor . |
| 27 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 28 | Because the attacks are most common in the first ten to twelve weeks of life , the name ‘ three-month colic ’ is often used . |
| 29 | The first ten minutes of the second half belonged entirely to Haslemere . |
| 30 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |