Sentence examples for something like ten from inspiring English sources

As its inventor, he will likely receive something like ten per cent of wholesale revenues, so if his product manages to siphon off, say, fifty per cent of his competitor's market he stands to earn around three-quarters of a million dollars a year.

The New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, consists of something like ten Army officers and fourteen hundred civilians.

The Man from Bombay, got there first, establishing the ratio of white supremacy at something like ten to one and inculcating forever in British minds the notion that heathen races don't understand machinery.

There are studies that actually show that women and children are much more vulnerable women are something like ten times more vulnerable—(and that's because) when it's a rapid climate (change)—you know, hurricane or cyclone they tend to want to protect their children.

I claim no special expertise on this complex subject, but, generally speaking, if, in France, you can show that you've been defamed, then, though truth is a defense, the burden of proof is still entirely upon the defendant, who generally has only a derisory time period to gather evidence — something like ten days.

He said: "This goes back to something like ten to 20 years of neglect by the Labour Party which culminated in seven deaths, eight serious case reviews and the notorious case at Edlington.

These people were something like seven hundred billions times more likely to actually solve the problem.

There are something like ten thousand private aid organizations in Haiti, or were.

The project of reshuffling the world's flora and fauna, which began slowly with the spread of species like the Pacific rat and sped up thanks to the efforts of acclimatization societies, has now, with global trade and travel, accelerated to the point that, on any given day, something like ten thousand species are being moved around just in the ballast water of supertankers.

On the assumption that there were actors around who would work for practically nothing, and that he could act as the whole crew, Kubrick estimated that he could make a feature film for something like ten thousand dollars, and he was able to raise this sum from his father and an uncle, Martin Perveler.

There'd be something like twelve thousand apartments.