Example sentences of "[adv prt] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 2 | The first day the lad chopped down ten large trees entirely by himself . |
| 3 | Predicting : students look at the title of the passage and discuss their expectations in pairs ; they then write down ten words they expect to find ; they then read the passage and see if their words appear . |
| 4 | Six sectors down ten percent , that of course included investment banking which we have n't touched on , but er the Lazard Houses profits were down a little less than ten percent which is rather good going , given their erm heavy specialist skills in M and A which were a little bit in short supply last year . |
| 5 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point three at twenty-four , eighty-two point nine . |
| 6 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point two at twenty-eight , seventy-nine point seven . |
| 7 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point one at two eight two two point one |
| 8 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point five at twenty-seven , eighty-six point eight . |
| 9 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point eight at twenty-six , fifty-four point one . |
| 10 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point two at twenty-seven , eighty-six point three . |
| 11 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point four at twenty seven o four point six |
| 12 | The hundred shares index closed down ten points at twenty-six , ninety-seven point six . |
| 13 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point two at two eight five two point eight |
| 14 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point four at twenty-six , thirty-five point four . |
| 15 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point four at twenty-six , o three point seven . |
| 16 | The hundred shares index closed down ten point two at two three two seven point five |
| 17 | The hundred shares index closed down ten points at twenty-five , seventy-four point seven . |
| 18 | Because of the concern we have decided to initially shut down ten pits . |
| 19 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 20 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 21 | We we started off ten , aw , ten , |
| 22 | It raises funds for conservation and its concerns are with earth-bound pandas ( it has helped set up ten panda reserves in China ) rather than ocean-going whales . |
| 23 | I was once involved in setting up ten Crusades simultaneously in Australia and New Zealand for Billy Graham . |
| 24 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 25 | Boscawen was another of Anson 's fire-eaters , a robust forthright seadog known to his men as ‘ Old Dreadnought ’ , from the name of the ship he had captained during one famous engagement , and he had used his 15 large ships and dozen smaller ‘ cruisers ’ to cause endless annoyance to the French and to tie up ten battalions of French infantry , waiting to repel an anticipated but imaginary landing . |
| 26 | One little girl only fifteen years old had to carry lead weights to make up ten stones , but when she arrived back on foot after the race had finished , she had lost not only the weights but the horse as well ! |
| 27 | They were the sons of Thomas Jackson , a humble farm labourer who brought up ten children in a thatched cottage . |
| 28 | She turned up ten days later , stranded on a coral reef in the Bahamas with most of her gear missing and her starboard bilges half ripped out by the savage coral heads . |
| 29 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 30 | When the Video Library was set up ten years ago by the non-profit-making association , Jeunesse et Arts Plastiques , I suggested to Jean Antoine that he should keep a U-matic video copy . |