Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 31 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 32 | Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications . |
| 33 | That translates into about a dozen seats in parliament and would be enough to cost the government its overall majority . |
| 34 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 35 | In May 1358 the French agreed to cede Aquitaine with other territories amounting to about a third of the kingdom , in full sovereignty , and to pay , in addition , 4,000,000 crowns ( £666,666 ) for the ransom of their king . |
| 36 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 37 | Social security accounts for about a third of total public spending in most western states . |
| 38 | Groundwater accounts for about a third of the public water supplies in Britain ; in the south and east of England dependence on supplies from groundwater is locally much greater . |
| 39 | Industry experts say this booming cottage industry now accounts for about a quarter of the X-rated video market . |
| 40 | Overhauling an industry that consumes $100 billion a year and accounts for about a seventh of the national economy merits delay . |
| 41 | Each partnership authority has a different spending pattern , but overall expenditure on social projects such as recreation and personal social services accounts for rather more than two-fifths of the total ; that on economic projects , such as site works , accounts for about a third ; and that on environmental projects , such as restoration of derelict land and housing , for a quarter . |
| 42 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 43 | Total investment , which includes spending on all types of capital goods by firms , accounts for about a fifth of total expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 44 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 45 | The paintwork was black , the walls covered in silver foil ; each of a line of doorways blazed with about a thousand watts of brilliance and there was a smell of greasepaint and cleansing cream that she had n't encountered since having a couple of bit parts in school plays . |
| 46 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 47 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 48 | Eventually , one rat adopts a submissive posture and its squeaks lengthen to about a second each , while their pitch drops to about 30 000 hertz . |
| 49 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 50 | This was brought home to me after witnessing the rapturous welcome given to about a dozen young Cape Verdians as they carried their enormous radios and bottles of duty-free Scotch to their waiting loved ones in the airport arrival lounge . |
| 51 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 52 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 53 | The ground heaved for about a hundred metres , more turf broke through and the smell increased . |
| 54 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 55 | We was dabbling for about a year then … . |
| 56 | They 'll only be there for about twenty four hours , they 'll go for about a week but they 're spending most of it with er , Deborah down at erm , Bambury |
| 57 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 58 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 59 | Cos there 's about a twenty five percent in workers per hectare , which actually would lead to about a third a third increase in the provision . |
| 60 | I was expecting to wait till about a quarter past seven . |