Example sentences of "[conj] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book . |
| 2 | Dating baked clay and burnt stone are perhaps the most interesting archaeological applications of TL , because these — in particular burnt flint — allow the dating of sites older than about ten thousand years , when the first pottery began to appear . |
| 3 | In particular , because directness and safety are often traded-off by individual cyclists , safe routes must not be more than about ten per cent longer than less-safe , but direct , alternatives . |
| 4 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 5 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 6 | There is a simple linear hierarchy in groups of less than about ten hens . |
| 7 | Using that indicator , it seems that about ten per cent of the people in each income group have heavy credit commitments . |
| 8 | Many more speakers and many more hours of speech are usually recorded than can ultimately be analysed ; a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data . |
| 9 | In background he was very similar to my generation of politicians , although about ten years older . |
| 10 | While waiting for Mr Knightley to arrive , the rest of us were invited to tour the grounds , and so it was that I and about ten others led off to the banks of the River Avon by a ruthlessly hearty philanthropist extraordinaire , Lady Patricia Rutherford . |
| 11 | During the 1920s writers and artists used it as their club and about ten thousand letters arrived there daily for clients who were staying in Paris or elsewhere in Europe . |
| 12 | This property had been well built , the archway was some fifteen feet in height and about ten feet in width . |
| 13 | The Old Dyke was a dry ditch , fifteen paces broad and about ten feet deep , backed to the west with a bank of earth , dry , decayed , tumbled , but running straight across the forest for mile after mile , monument of some forgotten war centuries old . |
| 14 | ‘ I need a bath , shave , food and about ten hours ’ sleep . ’ |
| 15 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 16 | In other birds sperm can be stored for shorter periods : average values are about six days in quail and doves and about ten days in chickens , ducks and zebra finches . |
| 17 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 18 | On the final tumultuous day , foreign visitors began arriving : two English girls , daughters of country parsons , who had hitch-hiked round the world and about ten Japanese tourists who moved cautiously in a close-packed pod bristling with lenses . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the new machines were not sufficiently reliable , and about ten years later the mill ceased production . |
| 20 | And about ten minutes later , the door opened . |
| 21 | And about ten minutes playtime running round the yard , come back and maybe have a history lesson . |
| 22 | Yeah and about ten |
| 23 | and about ten irish navvies |
| 24 | And about ten tapes . |
| 25 | Then met up with Carl and about ten other people so we had a little , a little erm convoy . |
| 26 | I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby . |
| 27 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 28 | Well we did it last night till about ten o'clock . |
| 29 | After about ten minutes he stopped her . |
| 30 | A few teenagers refused to leave with the others , but after about ten minutes they joined the crowd in Guildhall Square where the recently revived DUAC was holding a teach-in . |