Example sentences of "about 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | One the flour and water are mixed to a paste , it takes about 10 minutes for the heat to develop . |
| 2 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 3 | The ‘ A ’ or No. 1 solution is then applied liberally and after about 10 minutes the second solution is applied . |
| 4 | Mr Porras , considered a chieftain of the Medellin cocaine cartel , was arrested on Thursday in the northern town of Tulcan , about 10 miles from the Colombian border , and was to be handed over to Colombian authorities ‘ as a show of Ecuador 's support ’ for the drug crackdown , an Ecuadorean spokesman said . |
| 5 | Under the scheme , successful claimants would pay about 10 per cent of their winnings to a central fund which would meet the costs of unsuccessful claims . |
| 6 | In a large , prefabricated shed we wandered past stacks of 45-gallon drums of PCBs , two drums high , about 10 deep ; and there were contaminated transformers waiting to be cut up and roasted in the flames . |
| 7 | For executives below board level the median increase was about 10 per cent . |
| 8 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 9 | A lead-only second-hand car is now worth about 10 per cent less than an unleaded equivalent . |
| 10 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 11 | Brooks Marketing , which owns the Burke 's franchise , is offering about 10 per cent of its equity in return for £150,000 . |
| 12 | However , yesterday 's ruling means that only about 10 of those boats will be able to resume operations immediately . |
| 13 | Levels of lending , in which property companies represented about 10 per cent of total loan exposure to UK residents , did not present a ‘ major ’ supervisory anxiety , he said . |
| 14 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 15 | She was about 10 years older than me . |
| 16 | We had a quick count up and there were about 10 of us . |
| 17 | By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . |
| 18 | At least nine police were hurt and about 10 people detained in clashes between security forces , demonstrators and strike pickets in the Basque region and the neighbouring Navarre province , local government officials said . |
| 19 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 20 | Under a special programme , aid worth about 10 million ECUs ( £8 million ) would also go on transport and other urgent supplies . |
| 21 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 22 | Under a special programme , aid worth about 10 million ECUs ( £8 million ) would also go on transport and other urgent supplies . |
| 23 | The material , manufactured by General Atomics about 10 years ago , has been in storage with the Department of Energy ( DOE ) . |
| 24 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |
| 25 | I was , of course , trailing behind about 10 paces , sulking . |
| 26 | It was a couple of days later that I was alone in my flat in the evening and there was a knock on the door , I went to the door and opened it and there were about 10 people with an assortment of musical instruments — quite merry on this and that . |
| 27 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 28 | It took as a starting point a figure of about 10 Terrawatts ( one Terrawatt equals one billion kilowatts ) for global energy consumption in 1980 . |
| 29 | Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 . |
| 30 | At birth the mother will help her calf to the surface to gain its first breath , taking about 10 seconds to do so . |