Example sentences of "[noun] of about ten " in BNC.

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1 For readers of about ten , try James Gurney 's Dinotopia ( Dorling Kindersley £15 ) .
2 Key parties of about ten of all ranks from each Company , were called up on 24 August .
3 As you can see I am working abroad — having returned to the teaching profession after a gap of about ten years .
4 But I I er remember Margaret , my wife when she had the er the last one which is a a gap of about ten years between the third you know , and the fourth child
5 This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail .
6 For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons .
7 While most young male dogs go through a period of excessive sexual behaviour and can be a little too pushy for their own good with older males between the ages of about ten months and two years , they usually calm down and become more sociable with other dogs and less strife to have around the home .
8 Five Tibetan men and a boy of about ten , dressed in worn jackets and trousers , are seated around a fire , drinking tea , talking and laughing .
9 The door opened , and there stood a boy of about ten , chewing gum and gawping .
10 On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger .
11 But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs .
12 I do n't think a boy of about ten years of age would be capable of such martyrdom .
13 When he was a child of about ten or eleven , William used to play a kind of game with his shadow , except that it was n't a game , really , it was deadly serious .
14 At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano .
15 Is that a sort of follow-up of the God is dead school of theology of about ten or twenty years ago ?
16 Matilda and Lavender saw the giant in green breeches advancing upon a girl of about ten who had a pair of plaited golden pigtails hanging over her shoulders .
17 The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years .
18 Erm , that over a period of about ten years , began to wane and by and large now I think feature analysis per se has been abandoned as a as a model for understanding human perception .
19 ‘ Hey dad , that 's Vic Halom , ’ said a lad of about ten scurrying off to the big match .
20 Woolworths store in Grange Road , Jarrow , was hit twice on Wednesday when raiders got away with large quantities of children 's clothes including the theft of about £7,000 worth of clothes by a group of about ten youths .
21 For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) .
22 A queue of about ten people wearing gym shoes was lined up in front of the ladder .
23 These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch .
24 A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole .
25 My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss .
26 Looking at their names , I wondered about their nationality , and the booklets tells us that they are in fact ‘ of mixed Turkish/Spanish parentage ’ and that from the age of about ten their training was as the Paris Conservatoire , the Frankfurt Musikhochschule , under Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and finally at the Juilliard School , New York .
27 He believed that the two operations could be run with the staff of about ten employed by Pittencrieff at its office in Abilene , Texas , after closing Aberdeen 's office in Denver , Colorado , which has between ten and 15 staff .
28 Growing at a rate of about ten metres a day , by May 1903 the spine was no less than 310 metres high , rearing up above St Pierre like a memorial obelisk , a tribute to the thousands that had died below .
29 When the bat hunts , it emits a string of pulses at a rate of about ten a second .
30 Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black : they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts .
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