Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 2 | Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably . |
| 3 | And then she slopped herself down , got a fag and just about choked me and Auntie Alice out and then she did start to speak . |
| 4 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 5 | They 've got ten million pensioner and yet about two million of them are , are quite well off |
| 6 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 7 | It was Mansell 's 6th win of the season ; the 27th of his career and that puts him level with Jackie Stewart as Britain 's most successful driver , so victory at Silverstone would give him a record and just about clinch the world crown . |
| 8 | This is not for us fishkeepers , so it is fortunate that no persuasion is required to adapt to my typical menu , of beefheart , lancefish , mussels , feeder shrimps , worms and just about any other meat-based food . |
| 9 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 10 | The Dutch oven is a large iron pot on legs with heavy iron top ; a bed of coals is placed under it and on top of the lid and in about half an hour the food is cooked . |
| 11 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 12 | It begins : ‘ I hate the Stones and I hate blues … ’ and goes on to show the finger to the Hook and Chuck and Otis and Marvin and ‘ Reetha and Dylan and just about everything yer rock fan holds sacred . |
| 13 | The G M B should be proud of this role , however politics and negotiations are all about compromise and not about head-on collisions and we try and avoid these as much as possible . |
| 14 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 15 | Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away . |
| 16 | To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford … |
| 17 | Man of the Match was Dave Tilson ( from Bohs ) who out ran Strachan and just about everyone else on the park . |
| 18 | I used to go into the rolling mills and watch them rolling steel sheets and over about half an hour there , this was Saturday after Saturday after Saturday I used to do this . |
| 19 | It 's about six feet in height and just about shoulder width , er it 's coloured black and it has a bullet proof glass window of about six inches by four inches which enables the er officer behind the shield to manoeuvre it in the correct position . |
| 20 | No wonder Britain is a country heading for Third World status and just about the only people who are doing well in it are the Bailiffs . |
| 21 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 22 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 23 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 24 | The night was organised by the Danish importer of Marshall , and Jim himself was on hand to sign jackets , books , T-shirts and just about everything . |
| 25 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 26 | A third of the infected women get AIDS through through sex with men but only about three per cent of infected |
| 27 | Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers , prime minister , soldiers or just about anything ? |
| 28 | The distinctive deep chin cowling , a feature of the PR.XI , along with the enlarged oil tank beneath has been retained in this faithful rebuild and just about the only non-authentic concession made in the rebuild has been the fitting of a standard armour plated framed windscreen instead of the one piece wrap-around frameless example , the latter giving the pilot a somewhat distorted view from the cockpit . |
| 29 | Like The Beatles and the Stones and Talcy Malcy McLaren and Bernie ‘ Clash ’ Rhodes and just about everybody who 's had a smidgeon of cool in Britpop , two of Cud were art students . |
| 30 | I had to go up this wide , curving staircase and along about three miles of landing to get to my room . |