Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 2 | Four of them were now standing in the mud trough between the sand and the bank , about fifty yards upstream of the breakwater . |
| 3 | Aye but they 've got it now , there 's about eight copies out on the , all on the shelf gathering dust . |
| 4 | FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October ! |
| 5 | As soon as I dropped about 70 feet down towards the restaurant , via the tourist runway with its ridiculous little suburban garden fences bordering the steps , the wind ceased and I stepped out of the snow . |
| 6 | Yep , someone behind the goal had it , about 30 yards down to the left of where we were sat . |
| 7 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 8 | Lean over the steam so you 're about 12 inches away from the water . |
| 9 | Some of the rooms are situated in the Minoa Sun annexe which is only about 100 metres away from the main building . |
| 10 | Get onto the moorland by a stile on the far side and aim towards the right hand edge of the forest about 100 yards away across the valley . |
| 11 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 12 | The ball rolls about 10 yards directly across the pitch ( to Newall ) . |
| 13 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 14 | One of the most frightening times in my life occurred about three years ago during the October break . |
| 15 | Sigglesthorne is in Holderness , about three miles inland from the coastal town of Hornsea , and ten miles east-north-east of Beverley — the county town of the former East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 16 | I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel . |
| 17 | The next day the whole unit moved to a forward rendezvous point about sixty miles inland from the coast . |
| 18 | I say the light on this about 11 years ago to the month . |
| 19 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 20 | The flight was only about ten steps down to the next landing , and though he felt bruised all over , and shocked , nothing seemed to be broken . |
| 21 | It 's parked about ten yards away from the pub , on the left . |
| 22 | It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore . |
| 23 | The Communism in Parma bore , and still bears , very little resemblance to the Communism in other parts of Europe ; in fact it was different from that of Bologna , which is only about eighty kilometres away down the Via Emilia . |
| 24 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 25 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 26 | The distraught woman was dumped about five miles away from the reservoir , at Whitburn , west Lothian , and she flagged down a police patrol car from the Lothian and Borders force . |
| 27 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 28 | On Pippin 's side there was also a crucial non-participant : Bernard " though he was only about 8 km away from the battlefield , gave no help to either side " . |
| 29 | ‘ There are about 16 places here at the moment but most of them are already booked . |
| 30 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |