Example sentences of "ten [noun] ' [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 2 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
| 3 | The First Deputy Prime Minister 's husband replied in his standard way , larding his lengthy answer with the typical verbiage of the langue de bois : ‘ I will answer you starting with a more general presentation of the mechanism of societal government , ’ he began , before launching himself on about ten minutes ' worth of the following : ‘ A principle of collective leadership operates in the Romanian socialist society … |
| 4 | He was a tall , thin man with knotty muscles and a thin , high-cheek-boned face , his chin at the moment covered with ten weeks ' growth of beard . |
| 5 | Being Ten Years ' History of the Union of Democratic Control , 1924 , and I Have been Young , 1935 . ] |
| 6 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 7 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 8 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
| 9 | Fig. 3 gives the top ten markets ' percentage of total exports . |