Example sentences of "[noun sg] about 10 " in BNC.

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1 I had an interview about 10 years ago but they chose the man who would n't upset anyone — Ron Greenwood .
2 Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval .
3 This is a hemispherical , transparent drawing machine about 10 cm in diameter .
4 On the night he died , he was in a speedboat about 10 miles South of the Spanish Enclave , Ceuto and into Morroccan waters .
5 It is about 100 km diameter , and making reasonable assumptions about the impact speed would have been excavated by a rocky body about 10 to 20 km diameter .
6 In Brazil , another small frog builds its own ponds on the margins of forest pools , constructing a crater ringed with a low mud wall about 10 centimetres high .
7 The theatre was estimated to measure about 10 feet in height , 15 in breadth , and 20 in length ( can these measurements be correct — classes sometimes numbered 70 or more students ? ) .
8 It has been estimated that these three cost categories can impact about 10 to 40 per cent of the well 's dryhole cost .
9 In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat .
10 To make your own cage , you need one or two large plastic bottles ( such as those in which squash or cooking oil is sold , the 4 litre size ) ; a piece of nylon netting about 10 cm square ; a large rubber band ; acetate sheet ( not essential ) ; sticky tape ( such as Sellotape ) ; cotton-wool ; a small jam jar or a pickle jar ( no lids ) .
11 In the terminology of Locke ( 1964 , 1966 ) and Filshie ( 1970 ) there is a dense outer cuticulin layer about 10 nm thick which is very resistant to acids and organic solvents and probably contains a highly polymerized lipid .
12 Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction .
13 Infusions into the transverse colon were performed with the colonscope about 10 cm proximal to the splenic flexure , while those into the sigmoid colon were done with the colonoscope about 10 cm proximal to the rectosigmoid junction .
14 He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester .
15 To improve the quality and texture of your skin , put a crystal of your choice in to the bathwater about 10 minutes before you get in , then soak in the water for as long as you can .
16 He had robbed another couple about 10 minutes before the killing , after parking his car and approaching them waving a gun .
17 Gravitational waves emanating from such events are predicted to produce stresses in space–time of amplitude about 10 -18 .
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