Example sentences of "and about 10 " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 4 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 5 | PSCs were initially absent from all the simulations but began to form first with doubled CO 2 just before day 20 ( 4 January ) and about 10 days later with current CO 2 For three of the simulations the area of PSCs reached a maximum at about day 50 ( 3 February ) before reducing rapidly to zero by early March , corresponding to the rapid increase in temperatures in Fig. 1 . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that there are about 14 million adult smokers in the population of Great Britain and about 10 million ex-smokers . |
| 7 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |
| 8 | I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd about 25 leech bites on each foot , and about 10 leeches in each boot , all absolutely full of blood . ’ |