Example sentences of "spend the first ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spent the first ten minutes talking about Thomas Hardy , because Roger came from Dorset , and then Mr Baker read passages from the Kingman Report , which was still unpublished , and asked if Roger agreed . |
| 2 | Firbank spent the first ten years of his life at his family 's new home , The Coopers , Chislehurst — a village whose connections with the exiled Empress Eugénie may have influenced his enduring fascination with both royalty and Catholicism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 5 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |