Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All teams are at ten minutes ' notice to move . |
| 2 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ideally located , it 's only ten minutes ' walk from Levante Beach and very close to a selection of cafés , shops , bars and restaurants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We started house-hunting and found the perfect place on a new rural estate within ten minutes ' drive of the café . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Zimbala 's main prison , La Tambier , was less than ten minutes ' drive from the centre of Habane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She meant , after ten minutes ' solemn consideration , to write that she was extremely sorry , and entirely responsible for the change of plan , but she could not now sit for him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | BRIGADIER Dougal Munro s flat in Haston Place was only ten minutes ' walk from the London headquarters of SOE in Baker Street . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Doomed — by ten minutes ' madness |
| 20 | ten knights ' fees in chief of the lord King , from the service of which he was exonerated on account of his custody of the forest , and in return for finding his foresters at his own cost . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | On September 1st , as soon as she was back in Florence , she had sent £12 , almost ten months ' wages to Ellen and had stressed the importance of letting her know such a large sum of money had arrived . |
| 23 | Ten months ' M O T , excellent all round condition . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 26 | He was arrested shortly after his arrival and was detained without trial until September when he was sentenced to ten years ' hard labour for alleged espionage . |
| 27 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 28 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 29 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
| 30 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |