They would then in turn nine times out of ten don't get back to you.
You do not desecrate the landscape—at any rate, nine times out of ten.
Each of those stages takes from six to eight weeks if there are no queries whatever, and nine times out of ten there are queries.
But if, as happens nine times out of ten, it is brought about by a union member, the union will have to be responsible.
There might be, once in a blue moon, but nine times out of ten a boundary change harms either one party or another.
The value of the site is not improved because, nine times out of ten, the cottage rent is not raised.
Nine times out of ten it could have got away with all this, irregularities and all, without too much fuss.
If someone's car is stolen, then nine times out of ten he tells the police anyway.
