Example sentences of "about ten " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time she was fifty she was in a position to fulfil her life 's ambition : to sell up , go south , and buy a little house about ten miles from Beatrice ( ‘ near , but not too near ’ ) . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | About ten months later , in a report to an International Congress at Paris it was stated that the Spanish Medical Aid Committee had helped to set up nineteen hospitals throughout Republican Spain , some front-line hospitals and seventy-two ambulances . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Make a total of about ten cuts in all . |
| 36 | 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 ) . |
| 37 | He took a call from an Israeli ( real secret-agent stuff , this ) , and they slipped into code , Reynolds thought , after about ten minutes : |
| 38 | It was about ten minutes long and he had before him a two-hour train journey . |
| 39 | I see her for about ten minutes a week . |
| 40 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 41 | All along its length rotundas about ten feet high had been set up . |
| 42 | Her absence was registered by Fru Møller at about ten o'clock and she did not mention it to anyone . |
| 43 | After they 'd looked over about ten children , the doctor yawned and said , ‘ I do n't see any problems here . |
| 44 | Behind Claypole Ridge there is Ogdentown , about ten miles further . |
| 45 | Last year Lord Petre planted out about ten thousand Americans which , being at the same time mixed with about twenty thousand Europeans , and some Asians , make a very beautiful appearance , great art and skill being shown in consulting everyone 's particular growth and the well blending of the greens … |
| 46 | The beach is about ten minutes away , with the main area of San Antonio being a fifteen minute stroll , so you 're never far from the action . |
| 47 | The Los Alamos is in a quiet side street about ten minutes from the action and about seven minutes from the beach , and is perfect for those who want the best of the action , along with the occasional quiet spell . |
| 48 | From about ten o'clock the bars and the street start to fill up . |
| 49 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 50 | After a few minutes Wednesday arrived with about ten boys , Mr Morraine and Matron . |
| 51 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 52 | It is already apparent to us that she has no emotional link with the child ; she is indeed now only anxious to return to her own work , which she will do in about ten days ' time . ’ |
| 53 | Would a notice on the blackboard ‘ sorry to keep you waiting , interviews in Miss Smith 's class are running about ten minutes late . |
| 54 | He considered that he gave Modigliani a fair deal : ‘ He came to my shop about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 55 | After about ten minutes he stopped her . |
| 56 | The early training , founded on earlier arrangements of pre-existing sonata movements by other composers , was rewarded — the D major Concerto , K.175 remaining a favourite for about ten years . |
| 57 | She was killed at about ten o'clock on Tuesday night . ’ |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | But it would take about ten times the age of the Universe to write it all . ’ |
| 60 | About ten per cent of one parent families are headed by men . |