Example sentences of "the [noun sg] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the then bogus rate of exchange is ignored , the 0.85 RM would have cost the soldier about ten old pence . |
| 2 | ‘ So you left the Club about ten past eight , went home , found all was well , and went straight back ? ’ |
| 3 | I was going to draw the curtains , upstairs in the bedroom about ten minutes after you dropped me off here . |
| 4 | A board , whose identity is made known to all competitors , begins sailing upwind on port tack past a buoy in the water about ten seconds before the start gun . |
| 5 | He points to a spot in the grass about ten yards away . |
| 6 | And , then that famous man who died just recently , Finniston was asked to er , present a report to the government about ten years ago , in which he was going to knock the heads together again and try to get some kind of er organisation which would actually get the institutions to cooperate and coordinate their activities and that was the beginning of the Engineering Council . |
| 7 | He produced a set of car keys and loped past the tractor about ten inches from my nose . |
| 8 | We evacuated that house , which was occupied and the rest of the street about ten people in all , including several children . ’ |
| 9 | Well I put mine on the market about ten week 's ago . |