The phenomenon of precocious puberty - when children develop the first signs of puberty earlier than the normal ages of ten for girls and eleven-and-a-half for boys - is increasing all over the western world.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Watching TV may speed up puberty

The first things I bought for it, after the stove, the fridge, and the dishwasher went in, were an eleven-foot table, ten chairs, a pair of outsized armchairs, and an old stone fireplace wide enough for a side of pork.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

For the next hour and a half, he worked with three pianists two young girls, no more than ten or eleven, who played Chopin, and a teen-age boy who tried to make his way through a complicated Brahms piece.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

But there are some big issues like transport, that do cross local authority boundaries, and the people in your film there represent ten or eleven local authorities in the Greater Manchester area and that obviously poses some quite big questions of co-ordination.

BBC: Politics Show, Sunday 23 October 2005