Example sentences of "[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 | I was going to draw the curtains , upstairs in the bedroom about ten minutes after you dropped me off here . |
| 3 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 4 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 5 | ‘ So you left the Club about ten past eight , went home , found all was well , and went straight back ? ’ |
| 6 | A natter about ten I 'd expect wo n't it next week ? |
| 7 | But if the Milettis had scored a point with their choice of driver , Zen felt that he got one back when Ivy named their destination : the bar , identified by Lucaroni , where Ubaldo Valesio had gone to receive the phone calls from the gang , situated in a village about ten kilometres from Perugia . |
| 8 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 9 | I think what I 'll do , you 've got about forty minutes of it today , you 'll get Carl Rogers working with a client called er and then we 'll stop there and then next week you 'll see the er the next behaviourist called er called erm Arnold Lazarus , okay , who you might wan he 's got a book called Multi Modal Therapy which was a big hit about ten years ago and there 's about five copies in the library . |
| 10 | ‘ It was done on a manual Adler typewriter , a machine about ten years old . |
| 11 | He considered that he gave Modigliani a fair deal : ‘ He came to my shop about ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 12 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 13 | There was even a cardboard birthday cake about ten feet across which a couple of girls could leap out of if somebody paid for their time and the hire of a van . |
| 14 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 15 | We reached this place about ten this morning and are at present wind bound but trust we shall be fairly under way for Flinders tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | erm The Department of Trade and Industry stepped into this business about ten years ago and because there was a situation where there was no re-insurance , but when the company that was actually selling the policy when into liquidation erm there was no redress for the policy holder . |
| 17 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 18 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 19 | We finished that job about ten thirty that night . |
| 20 | ‘ My co-writer Gerard Brown and I actually got the idea for Juice about ten years ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Next to it and with a connecting door , was a small kitchen about ten feet by eight . |
| 23 | FOR SOMEONE whose music is as aggressive and uncompromising as Ice-T 's , it comes as some surprise to discover that the rap superstar lives in a charming country cottage about ten miles from Los Angeles . |
| 24 | Paula explains : ‘ I did make a conscious decision about ten years ago . |
| 25 | The first is taken from Mark 's Gospel and involves the cure of a single leper ; the second is from his own source and is a story about ten lepers. –any scholars believe that the story of the ten lepers is a development of the miracle of the one leper . |
| 26 | its round about ten to eleven , i n't it love , last bus usually ? |
| 27 | Thursday morning about ten o'clock . |
| 28 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
| 29 | He points to a spot in the grass about ten yards away . |
| 30 | There was at one stage prospecting starting in a locality about ten miles distant from the main area and there was , I think ( my figures may not be exactly right but they 're near enough right ) 276 landowners in the locality and 274 of them signed a petition to the prospecting companies to stay off their land . |