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ten past
n. ten minutes past any hour
Usage examples of "ten past".
Its circular rim was vacant, probably because it was going on for ten past the hour now, and people had begun to drift back inside.
Bear's body had already started to stink, and even with favorable winds, tides, and seas it was four or five days good sailing to Gibralter, and probably another ten past that to Londinium, and who knew how long after that it would take to bring the body home to Fallsworth?