Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " 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 Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park , consisting of 1000 acres of land given over to ( amongst other things ) a working dairy farm , wildlife , a pets ' corner and an aviary for tropical birds , is only ten minutes ' drive away . |
| 4 | Zimbala 's main prison , La Tambier , was less than ten minutes ' drive from the centre of Habane . |
| 5 | DI Russell was too amicable to take offence and , after ten minutes ' conversation and a drink , the three slipped into the easy amity of fellow professionals , exchanging grumbles and gossip . |
| 6 | There 's all sorts of accidents not only having the computer switched off , you might accidentally mess the file up or erase it or whatever , er , you 've still got the original copy on the disk so if you keep saving it every ten minutes or so , then you always lose more than ten minutes ' work . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Just ten minutes ' walk from the city centre , the Jewellery Quarter is home to over 200 manufacturing jewellers and 50 silversmiths , as well as the Birmingham School of Jewellery and Silversmithing . |
| 9 | Ideally located , it 's only ten minutes ' walk from Levante Beach and very close to a selection of cafés , shops , bars and restaurants . |
| 10 | No more than ten minutes ' walk from Celtic Crescent , in a wide drab street that was unserved by any tram route , its tall aspect , railed forecourt and large Star of David hewn out of the brickwork over the doors drew attention to its foreignness . |
| 11 | BRIGADIER Dougal Munro s flat in Haston Place was only ten minutes ' walk from the London headquarters of SOE in Baker Street . |
| 12 | Doomed — by ten minutes ' madness |
| 13 | All teams are at ten minutes ' notice to move . |
| 14 | Maybe he would n't be bringing the certificate today , but then again in ten minutes ' time Sampson could be on his way down to the police station with an open envelope . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the time Scott had changed his blue Jersey for something less like the blue and gold of his colleagues , the ten minutes ' grace had been swallowed up . |
| 17 | And if this candidate they 're sending should be more interested in Home Rule for Ireland than our Ten Hours ' Bill then what of it ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person . |
| 20 | The maximum penalty is ten years ' imprisonment , compared with a maximum of five years for the lesser offence of violent disorder . |
| 21 | Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim 's life or grievous bodily harm ( maximum sentence of ten years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 22 | The maximum penalty for child neglect is now ten years ' imprisonment , which should be sufficient to deal with cases involving considerable fault and actually or potentially serious consequences . |
| 23 | This offence , with a maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment , covers a wide range of conduct , from a stolen kiss on the cheek to forced fellatio ( oral sex ) . |
| 24 | Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 26 | Prisoner of conscience Yndamiro Restano , president of an unofficial opposition group known as the Harmony Movement , was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in May ( see Worldwide Appeal , pages 20–21 ) . |
| 27 | The maximum penalty for this offence when perpetrated against a woman was formerly two years ' imprisonment , rising to five where she was under 13.6 In 1985 , it was raised to ten years ' imprisonment regardless of the victim 's age . |
| 28 | In the light of the Committee 's hesitancy , it is not surprising that the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , which raised the penalty for indecent assault to ten years ' imprisonment , did not also divide the offence into two degrees . |
| 29 | Thus , the maximum penalty for indecently assaulting a man was formerly ten years ' imprisonment , whereas for a woman it was two years , rising to five where she was under 13 . |
| 30 | It might additionally be thought to be undesirable that trivial assaults have to be prosecuted with an offence carrying the heavy maximum penalty of ten years ' imprisonment . |