Example sentences of "[pron] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , you need n't , need n't take those you got out last Friday , its the earlier one 's of which will be due next week I 'm sure cos they 've put up the prices now , its about ten P every day you have them out . |
| 2 | ‘ The euphoria of completion seems to last you about ten minutes . ’ |
| 3 | And a lot of the commercial ones charge you about ten pence a |
| 4 | Costs you about ten pound do it ? |
| 5 | just gets up to you about ten hours , right , next week in , from the heart . |
| 6 | I 'll have to write a wee note to say that I 've to come and get you about ten to twelve . |
| 7 | Now we start off I 'll ask you I give you about ten minutes that 's all it does n't take long . |
| 8 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 9 | My uncle bought one about ten year ago and all there was about was Betamax then . |
| 10 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 11 | Give me about ten minutes , then bring Isabel into the hall , will you ? ’ |
| 12 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 13 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 14 | okay cos they 'll all want some , they 'll all give me about ten P which is n't much |
| 15 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 16 | A game I invented , and which is useful as children arrive , is to give them about ten or twelve cards . |
| 17 | There are two village greens ; both were levelled , and the pond was reclaimed on one of them about ten years ago . |
| 18 | Anybody whose ambitious at this point in time is taking a risk , in the last three years the world 's airlines have lost between them about ten billion U S dollars . |
| 19 | Married him about ten years ago , I believe . |
| 20 | Hugh will be accompanied by a 30-foot safety boat , and he is making the journey , which he estimates will take him about ten hours , in a standard sea kayak , and he is due in around 4.30 this afternoon . |
| 21 | Yeah , it only takes him about ten minutes to get home . |
| 22 | " Can I play ? " she said at last , after we 'd ignored her about ten minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ I woke her about ten . |
| 24 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 25 | It 's a spe that 's special capsule , take it about ten o'clock at night , |
| 26 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 27 | You can have the heating on I 'll I 'll check it about ten minutes but if the hot water gets really , really hot then it 's the thermostat and |
| 28 | The thing I was getting so pissed off cos I 've run it about ten times now , cos you keep coming and do alterations ! |
| 29 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 30 | Take a blank sheet of paper and write down everything that occurs to you about the word(s) you have chosen , giving yourself about ten minutes . |