Example sentences of "[noun] in ten " in BNC.
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1 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
2 | But with just one defeat in ten games and key players available after injury and suspension his team are looking increasingly safe from relegation . |
3 | This was only owr fift defeet in ten leeg games ( we allso went don 2- at Clansford ) so it stood us in good sted for owr Fst rownd match against Drizley Welfare in the ‘ FARMBOY SHEEP SCAB LINEMENT INTER-LEAGUE TROPHY ’ . |
4 | In real terms , the figure has risen almost 25% in ten years . |
5 | Mr Norman Tebbit , then secretary of state at the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , asked few questions and waved through the Al Fayed bid in ten days flat . |
6 | The manufacturers would like to channel any new government money through their existing collaborative research clearing house , the US Council for Automotive Research ( USCAR ) , which coordinates joint research in ten areas , ranging from battery technology to passenger safety . |
7 | But the Radicals , the predominant party under the Third Republic suffered from being identified with the failures of the 1930s and attracted less than one vote in ten . |
8 | God knew she had had enough practice in ten years of policing . |
9 | Good , tight bowling enabled England to do this comfortably , giving them their second trophy in ten days . |
10 | ‘ I said you 'd meet him at the car in ten minutes . ’ |
11 | Childhood insecurity : deprivations , death of parent(s) ; numerous domestic changes ( ten homes in ten years ) . |
12 | Indeed , it is possible that the black hole could emit a television set or the works of Proust in ten leatherbound volumes , but the number of configurations of particles that correspond to these exotic possibilities is vanishingly small . |
13 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
14 | We had thirty-seven per cent casualties in ten minutes . |
15 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
16 | The civil court appearance was Finnegan 's second brush was the law in ten days . |
17 | I heard of one 35-year-old secretary who bought a special offer at a solarium , soaked up 50 half-hour sessions of artificial sun in ten weeks , and found her shins covered with large , dark , irregular freckles that remained and spread . |
18 | The fertiliser in ten plastic bags was alleged to have been found in a bedroom of the couple 's house in Fallswater Street . |
19 | Let's say it goes from forty to si forty metres per second to sixty metres per second in ten seconds . |
20 | One child in ten is affected and , in 1990 , there were 98 deaths among five-to-24-year-old asthma sufferers . |
21 | In a review of the present situation of soil degradation in ten countries of the Near East , Rafiq ( 1978 : 9 ) states that : ‘ in most countries only qualitative information is available , ’ a view which Stocking ( 1978a ) shares with reference to Africa . |
22 | UK architects will be able to participate in this competition which officers 54 sites in ten European countries . |
23 | Yes , erm , Sue 's after you , if you going , she wants to know , can you go to lunch in ten minutes ? |
24 | But the appeal judges later approved an agreement between the two sides in the dispute , allowing the airports to continue the detention of the planes until £350,000 security is paid into court or until a full appeal hearing takes place in ten days time . |
25 | Two major defeats in ten years , followed now by the capture of the king , led to rebellion in Normandy and civil troubles in Paris which were to end in violence . |
26 | ‘ I used to enjoy my work but I have n't had a proper job in ten years now , ’ he says . |
27 | To double the current membership in ten years . |
28 | In their subsequent survey of probationary teachers , the HMI claimed that ‘ one teacher in ten revealed insecurity in the subject they were teaching ’ , an insecurity that was reflected in their teaching method . |
29 | First , in The New Teacher in School , the HMI identified one secondary teacher in ten as revealing insecurity in the subject they were teaching ( an encouragingly small proportion , one might have thought ) . |
30 | National TV shows weekly reviews of American MTV , French Europa Plus , NBC ( USA ) plan to create a network of radio stations in ten big cities . |