Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 2 | A major difference between the dictionaries is the number of words defined — learner 's dictionaries tend to contain about 30,000 headwords , general purpose dictionaries ( e.g. CED ) have about 100,000 definitions , Websters Third New International has 450,000 and the Oxford English Dictionary has about 500,000 definitions . |
| 3 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 4 | I had to go to work about nine . |
| 5 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 6 | About 25 requests for a public inquiry have been received , and Buckinghamshire county council has received about 200 letters objecting to it . |
| 7 | And the Southern Health Board has received about 4,000 letters of protest at proposed ‘ rationalisation ’ plans . |
| 8 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 9 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 10 | He will need to jump about 120 feet to clear the 20ft high wall , and will also perform stunts in an 85,000-seat stadium watched on TV by an estimated one billion people . |
| 11 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 12 | Ultimate has installed about 50 systems to date in the Commonwealth of Independent States ; Almazjuvelir Export can pay in hard currency because it exports over $1,000m annually in jewellery , precious metals and gemstones and holds exclusive rights to manufacture reproductions of the Faberge eggs . |
| 13 | The resultant ‘ Clubturf ’ , and with it the ‘ Natural ’ cricket pitch , started a quiet revolution which to date has seen about 2000 Clubturf installations at county clubs , public schools and village greens . |
| 14 | He has seen about 6000 patients over the years and all except six had suffered from allergies . |
| 15 | It should be stressed , however , that — while the outlines of human activities are clear — there are still many uncertainties : for instance , we know that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has risen about 9 per cent since 1959 . |
| 16 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that this particular treatment has saved about 10 million lives . |
| 18 | Jobs saved : A £55m North Sea gas and oil rig order won by offshore engineering company AMEC off Aberdeen has saved about 1,000 jobs , sdays the firm . |
| 19 | The vehicle has done about 56,000 . |
| 20 | Since then it has done about 4000 miles and generated a lot of interest among fellow hacks — especially now we have the handling and ride back to its exalted best with new shocks and a set of tyres . |
| 21 | Adept has produced about 3,000 robots since it was founded in 1983 . |
| 22 | So far the museum has raised about half the amount and fingers are crossed that they can find the rest before June . |
| 23 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 24 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |
| 25 | This increase is expected to last about 18 months at which point a further upgrade will be required . |
| 26 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 27 | The satellite transmitters have an effective life of 10 months , while the smaller radio transmitters are expected to last about 15 weeks . |
| 28 | The company , which has garnered about ten customers so far , has turnkey agents available from Sybase , Lotus and Unix E-mail . |
| 29 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 30 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |