Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | After doing this for perhaps ten seconds , the fanners beside the entrance stop simultaneously and fresh air is drawn back into the hive . |
| 2 | Poach them in apple juice or water and sugar ( ie syrup ) , or even the Gewürztraminer , for perhaps ten minutes at most . |
| 3 | ‘ I considered it for perhaps ten seconds . ’ |
| 4 | Another study ( Farag , 1979 ) used elastic matching with eight direction codes to establish accurate recognition , unfortunately for only ten cursively written key words . |
| 5 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |
| 6 | The immediate impetus came from Cromer , the inhabitants of which pointed out that Sir Bartholomew Read 's sixteenth-century £10 was sufficient for only ten boys , and that a new school for eighty or a hundred might be built for £250 . |
| 7 | Some women have found that they need to take evening primrose oil for only ten days before their period but , until your PMS eases , it is a good idea to take the capsules every day and then try cutting down to ten-14 days before your period . |
| 8 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 9 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 10 | Fifty weeks you know fifty weeks only ten a day is it worth putting a database in for only ten labels . |
| 11 | Simultaneously , it was being discovered that the ill-chosen or ill-formed materials and techniques used in the new build of the sixties was beginning to break down after only ten years : autopsies on building failures indicated that earlier cavalier attitudes to the intricacies of new technological phenomena such as interstitial condensation and concrete additives , called for newer skills and deeper understanding found only in the education and training of the building surveyor . |
| 12 | They won despite having Leonard Ford sent off after only ten minutes and , as in the case of the football final replay a fourteen man team once again defied the odds . |
| 13 | The home team started in determined style and deservedly went ahead after just ten minutes when a well-worked move ended with Simon Hibberd resting from close range . |
| 14 | The treatment is quite expensive but produces visible benefits after just ten days . |
| 15 | Now , after nearly 17 months out since his self-inflicted injury in the FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest , he surpassed expectations by scoring after just ten minutes against Spurs in the Olympic Stadium . |
| 16 | After approximately ten hours of fasting , the body needs a good source of energy for the rigours of the day to come . |
| 17 | He succeeds John Eversley who retires later this year after nearly ten years in the post . |
| 18 | He took a call from an Israeli ( real secret-agent stuff , this ) , and they slipped into code , Reynolds thought , after about ten minutes : |
| 19 | After about ten minutes the game ends , and the team with the largest amount of ‘ heir own food is judged to be the winner . |
| 20 | ‘ One house-keeper can look after about ten old people , as long as they do n't get really ill . |
| 21 | Sadly , wayward genius GEORGIE BEST , who turned up with The Farm , slickly eluded our lensman and left after about ten minutes to dance his studded boots off at some West End nightclub . |
| 22 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 23 | ‘ And then , after about ten years , I let the colour grow out . |
| 24 | After about ten minutes , they found themselves back where they 'd first arrived in Victorian London . |
| 25 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 26 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 27 | So I calmed down see and I was alright after about ten minutes . |
| 28 | ‘ After almost ten years as party leader and eight and a half as prime minister , the time has come for me to step aside , ’ he told a news conference in Ottawa after announcing his decision to his party . |
| 29 | When we got to within quarter of an hour q sorry quarter of a mile of the the actual village itself , and remember it 's quarter of a mile I 'm talking about not ten yards fifteen yards away , we saw a railway embankment in front of us . |
| 30 | 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 . |