Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 2 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 3 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 4 | Ten minutes later Father Poole walked painfully , with the aid of his stick , up the steep deserted street that led to his church . |
| 5 | I walked away , and ten minutes later Holmes came to meet me . |
| 6 | Ten minutes later Fabia drove away from Vendelin Gajdusek 's home feeling disbelieving and stunned . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later Doctor Jekyll had returned to his own shape and was sitting down , pretending to eat breakfast . |
| 8 | Ten minutes later Nora said- ’ With two thousand dwellings , the weekly rent would be four shillings for a labourer , four and tenpence for a mechanic , and eight shillings for an overseer . ’ |
| 9 | Ten minutes later Tate came down alone . |
| 10 | But ten minutes later Scottish broke back with the only try of the game … |
| 11 | Ten minutes later Mr Mac himself arrived , blasting his big Kawasaki into the yard before strolling down the quay to cast his sceptical gaze at Wavebreaker . |
| 12 | Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger . |
| 13 | Ten minutes later Michael Odell came on the line . |
| 14 | Ten minutes later Lou Collins was back in his Company limousine , heading towards London . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later captain Andrea McLean blasted home their seventh short corner . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later Barry panicked and tried to cancel . |
| 17 | Phoebe offered Maggie a cup of hot chocolate , and ten minutes later Rachel returned smiling and quoting , |
| 18 | Ten minutes later Rachel sat opposite Jimmy in the hospital self-service bar as they sipped hot tea from plastic cups . |
| 19 | Er but if you did your work they were very fair , probably ten minutes before time they would say er Righto , you can go now . |
| 20 | … less than ten feet away Patrick Lundy and Jane Bradley , followed Michael Collins down the carpeted corridor , while behind them the silent bodyguard carefully locked the door after them . |
| 21 | Ten years later Lord Francis Russell was less fortunate . |
| 22 | Ten years later Burton would have been as happy as Larry . |
| 23 | Ten years later Davdison married Julie Gullick . |
| 24 | Money was found for school building projects , especially in EPAs , but ten years later 20% of all primary pupils were still being educated in pre-1903 buildings , many with outside lavatories . |
| 25 | Ten years later Darius 's son Xerxes led a great invasion to conquer Greece for the empire . |
| 26 | Ten years later Professor Marsh was asked why the faculty refused to elect Ramsey to a lectureship . |
| 27 | Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls . |
| 28 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 29 | More than ten years ago Peter Laslett complained that ‘ we can say little yet about the everyday relationship between old people and their grown-up , independent children for any period earlier than recent times . ’ |
| 30 | Yet ten years ago China was one of the world 's most straitlaced societies , with neighbourhood networks of morality police who made premarital sex difficult to get away with and unmarried cohabitation impossible . |