Example sentences of "about the tenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 2 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 3 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 4 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 5 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |