Example sentences of "about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rise , madam , about ten a-clock . |
| 2 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 3 | What do you recall that 's most important from your days as a drama student — which are about ten years ago ? |
| 4 | My story starts in front of the main noticeboard in the School for Italian Studies about ten years ago . |
| 5 | But the country 's production facilities lag the west by about ten years . |
| 6 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 7 | The mortaring continued for about ten minutes , then it was back to the orchard and comparative safety of the slit trench . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our young bookers look at about ten acts a week . |
| 10 | We were about ten when nuisance escalated into serious engagement . |
| 11 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 12 | Cuckney 's longest stint in government service lasted for about ten years . |
| 13 | The analysis of a group of such SAP projects will be meaningful only in about ten years after they became fashionable — that is in about 1995 . |
| 14 | Taking these and studies commissioned by donors in countries where they are the predominant donor into account , it appears that only about ten African aid recipients have been studied in this way . |
| 15 | The rig is about ten feet long and is attached by a blood know to the main reel line . |
| 16 | Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away . |
| 17 | ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track . |
| 18 | I here s about ten people when we come in , sitting on the floor . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's about ten times better , ’ Bodo said bluntly and cheerfully , swigging his glassful and accepting another . |
| 20 | He is only 1lb better off for about ten lengths . |
| 21 | When they met at Newbury on November 25th , Nomadic Way finished 10 lengths behind his rival , and now , on only 1lb better , Nomadic Way improved about ten lengths . |
| 22 | Edward Knoyle inherited the manor in 1533 , and probably set about building this mullioned and gabled beauty about ten years later around a humble medieval hall . |
| 23 | I was in … oh , from about ten o'clock to well after lunch , and I would n't have thought she would come in late in the afternoon . |
| 24 | About ten years ago the agriculture ministry , which runs the agency , made a half-hearted attempt to staunch its losses . |
| 25 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 26 | This remarkable aircraft , when it joins the air force in about ten years , will render all other fighters obsolete at a stroke . |
| 27 | Currently , the spread is about ten points , suggesting that the market expects a default rate of about 10% . |
| 28 | About ten minutes later , we decide we 've cooled down sufficiently to be able to leave the men 's room and go back into the restaurant . |
| 29 | In background he was very similar to my generation of politicians , although about ten years older . |
| 30 | About ten years later , in 1980 I think , I revisited Salamanca , on my way back from Lisbon . |