Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 2 | Ian Elmore and John Whitwich , from Walsall , were horrified to see dozens of specimen tench and big carp struggling in just ten inches of water when they visited engineering works on the Park Hall stetch of the Rushall Canal near Walsall . |
| 3 | If you are busy or infirm , the advantage of being able to take a ready-made meal out of the freezer and put it in the microwave where it is cooked in under ten minutes , far outweighs any aesthetic pleasure that purists might derive from lengthy cooking processes . |
| 4 | The object of the book being to bring about the release of Cooper and McMahon as soon as possible , I also decided to forgo a hardback publisher , whom I knew could not publish in under ten months , and contracted instead for an original paperback . |
| 5 | Great strides had been made in under ten years . |
| 6 | The immigration procedures , even for Nadirpur , were a mere formality , and in under ten minutes all four passengers were through to the arrivals lounge . |
| 7 | The crossword is normally finished in under ten minutes . |
| 8 | The analysis of a group of such SAP projects will be meaningful only in about ten years after they became fashionable — that is in about 1995 . |
| 9 | This remarkable aircraft , when it joins the air force in about ten years , will render all other fighters obsolete at a stroke . |
| 10 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 11 | It is already apparent to us that she has no emotional link with the child ; she is indeed now only anxious to return to her own work , which she will do in about ten days ' time . ’ |
| 12 | The M'Naghten rules are still in force and the ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ plea succeeds only in about ten cases each year in British courts . |
| 13 | So we called up Andy Bruaer and rented one and in about ten minutes , there it was ! ’ |
| 14 | It was a polite invitation to a morning party at the minister 's house in Bath Street , to take place on a Saturday , in about ten days ' time . |
| 15 | As a result , it has been designed to de-rig easily , in about ten or fifteen minutes and , would you believe it , he can supply a trailer that you can tow it home in . |
| 16 | It will transport an inanimate object like a log from one side of the ocean to the other in about ten months . |
| 17 | ‘ So in about ten months we 'd have him out and around , or else what am I paying you for ? ’ |
| 18 | Winter savory can be grown from seed sown outdoors in August ; it should not be covered as it needs light to germinate when it will then sprout in about ten days . |
| 19 | I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask . |
| 20 | ‘ Will you come back with a little rum in about ten minutes … ? ’ |
| 21 | Weapons such as the Pershing-II , launched from Western Europe , could reach Soviet territory in about ten minutes and were seen as strategic rather than intermediate in character by Soviet negotiators . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll be with you in about ten or fifteen minutes , mate , ’ Bates told him . |
| 23 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 24 | Now we 'll probably need to repeat some of these in about ten to fourteen days . |
| 25 | That weren that were n't far from to er Cliff Quay , do it in about ten minutes on your bike . |
| 26 | It is completely restored , set in about ten acres of land , rather isolated but with fine views . |
| 27 | I 'm going over when my shift ends , in about ten minutes . |
| 28 | New Year 's Eve , in about ten days ' time . |
| 29 | Such was the message Lewis passed on , himself saying nothing for the moment of his own extraordinarily exciting find , but agreeing to pick up Morse in about ten minutes ' time , after briefly reporting in to St Aldate 's . |
| 30 | This particular recipe is a quick-to-make version , and is ready to use in about ten minutes . |