Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] ten [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 After about ten minutes the game ends , and the team with the largest amount of ‘ heir own food is judged to be the winner .
2 If that oxygen to the brain should cease for just ten seconds the result is a coma ; after three minutes there is irreversible brain damage .
3 For nearly ten years the company flourished and Dronfield thrived , but when the home market for steel rails was saturated and firms had to look overseas for customers the land-locked position of the Sheffield area became a decided disadvantage .
4 seven ninety nine I do n't know how much the waistcoats have gone down to but they most probably gone down as well to about ten pounds the waistcoats .
5 It works by boosting the amount of serotonin in the brain to about ten times the usual level .
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