Example sentences of "[verb] about ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | HDS , which now has about ten sales staff , might be able to up the ante with a sales drive of its own . |
| 2 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 3 | Over-packaging adds about ten per cent to our weekly shopping bill . |
| 4 | It 's parked about ten yards away from the pub , on the left . |
| 5 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 6 | just leave that unless you are totally stuck , and I do n't mean sort of five minutes , have a good sort of maybe ten minutes or say about ten minutes of playing with this . |
| 7 | like I say about ten to eleven , five to eleven said what are you doing then Bob ? |
| 8 | I used to tell him off for riding a bike without a light — summonsed him in the end and he was fined about ten bob . |
| 9 | You will need about ten tripods per acre . |
| 10 | I know some of the sport starts about ten o'clock on Sundays . |
| 11 | The two cases that have been mentioned occurred about ten years afterwards , and these may have been removed against their will . |
| 12 | One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to " explain " why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago — it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve . |
| 13 | which will be I do n't know about ten o'clock-ish is that a problem the er a copy of a buyer 's guide in for you Before we move into the role play for cycle , what I have to do is show you erm a training video that is produced by the department , you may have seen it before I do n't know |
| 14 | Julia said oh you do n't look eleven and a half , but er I 'd still like to look about , I do n't know about ten , I suppose oh you do have to do |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Old Parnham phoned about ten minutes ago . |
| 17 | There are no big stores but ‘ one of everything ’ and the old pattern of Snaith , the centre serving about ten villages , has returned . |
| 18 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 19 | They reckon Germany done about ten , fifteen minutes combat time over the , over the |
| 20 | Put about ten on a blank tape , then play it once through to your Six . |
| 21 | Well you , put about ten piles out ! |
| 22 | She carried herself differently and in her attitude , if not in her appearance , she seemed about ten years older . |
| 23 | The scheme allows about ten UK researchers per year to spend three months to two years in a Fujitsu research laboratory in Japan . |
| 24 | An alarming statistic , particularly considering that the brown rat also carries leptospirosis or Weil 's disease , which infects half the rat population of Britain and kills about ten people every year . |
| 25 | Similarly , mechanisms to excrete at least most of the excess salt that we eat , since most of us consume about ten times the amount necessary for our bodily needs . |
| 26 | It does all that carbon will do about ten times over , can visually be checked for when it is fully loaded , and will NOT release the lot back into the water even when fully charged . |
| 27 | Erm so you probably think , oh he 's got it now , you 've done two or three of them , let him do about ten of them , what 's six add one ? |
| 28 | They always say the thought might be worse and to , we know it costs about , it costs about ten pound to buy well , I think at the end of the day worth it , is to put them out on a paper plate . |
| 29 | And I think my shower costs about ten P cos I 'm not that quick . |
| 30 | Like it 's thi , they buy all that stuff , yeah , but if they 're stuff like , it costs about ten pounds or more |