Example sentences of "[noun sg] of about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you can see I am working abroad — having returned to the teaching profession after a gap of about ten years . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The door opened , and there stood a boy of about ten , chewing gum and gawping . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't think a boy of about ten years of age would be capable of such martyrdom . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is that a sort of follow-up of the God is dead school of theology of about ten or twenty years ago ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Hey dad , that 's Vic Halom , ’ said a lad of about ten scurrying off to the big match . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | A queue of about ten people wearing gym shoes was lined up in front of the ladder . |
| 19 | These have a radius of about ten miles and densities of millions of tons per cubic inch . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When the bat hunts , it emits a string of pulses at a rate of about ten a second . |
| 25 | Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black : they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts . |
| 26 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 27 | ‘ We found 2,500 had not been delivered , the equivalent of about ten streets in the whole of Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Apart from the People 's Republic of China , which claims to have eradicated syphilis in the space of about ten years , most countries are now reporting an increase in the number of cases of early infectious syphilis , usually amongst male homosexuals . |
| 29 | Make a total of about ten cuts in all . |
| 30 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |