Example sentences of "[noun pl] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in weights about four or five years |
| 2 | My eyes had become accustomed to the now semi-darkness , so I could pick out shapes about seventy-five yards away . |
| 3 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 4 | Mr Malik used those very words about three times every day . |
| 5 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 6 | In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings . |
| 7 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 8 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 9 | No not really my dads about six foot three |
| 10 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 11 | All the lights were white golfball shapes on stands about four feet off the floor . |
| 12 | It had been synthesized and first tested in animals about 12 years earlier , and rejected , or ignored , twice . |
| 13 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 14 | We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period . |
| 15 | It has been suggested , for example , that mammals ‘ took over ’ from the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago , just by competing with them . |
| 16 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |
| 17 | When I met the Association of British Insurers about six months ago , it was reluctant to take a collective view , but when I met it about two months ago , its views had changed considerably , because the claims paid by insurers rose by 46 per cent . |
| 18 | I , I just sort of made erm two short ladders about two inches long . |
| 19 | you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ? |
| 20 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 21 | this was a long time ago parties about two years ago |
| 22 | The eruption lasted between June and November of that year , and in those six months about eleven cubic kilometres of lava flowed out from the fissure , covering an area of nearly 600 square kilometres . |
| 23 | In 1837 there had been improvements to the dressing floors , and it was then considered likely that every two months about 400 tons of merchantable ore and concentrate would soon be a reality , though the low price of copper prevailing at that time was felt to be something of a drawback . |
| 24 | I believe Warwick changed over to using steel truss rods about eight or nine months ago but I would urge owners to have their basses checked as soon as possible , and would appreciate some kind of response from Warwick as to the precise situation . |
| 25 | Ephorus , who wrote his first books about 350 B.C. , included the Celts in his description of the world . |
| 26 | Of the larger nationalities , the Buryat Mongols have four dialects , the recently ‘ consolidated ’ Altaians about six , the Khakass about five , and the Tuvans four , while even such a small community as the Enets Samoeds has two quite widely differing ‘ dialects ’ . |
| 27 | It drove right over them , pressing their heads about three feet into the sand . |
| 28 | The Eurotrack 100 yields about 3.1 per cent , which exceeds the current yield of the trust 's portfolio . |
| 29 | Every year the Netherlands imports about 40 million tonnes of crude oil and over 30 million tonnes of refined products of which about 40 million tonnes per year of refined products is exported . |
| 30 | I stand with my feet about eighteen inches apart , with my left foot forward of my right so that I can easily swivel from the hips from looking parallel to the bank through to facing my ‘ target ’ . |