Example sentences of "[prep] about [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 2 | I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the |
| 3 | Between now and early October , shareholders can earn an annualised yield of about 11½ p.c . |
| 4 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |
| 5 | Together the SR and GR effects should lead to a time delay variation of amplitude of about 4 ms over one orbit . |
| 6 | Currently wages are rising by about 7.5 p.c. per annum compared to price rises of about 4 p.c . |
| 7 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 8 | Two hundred yards away a group of about fifteen seladang were visible , the calves frisking and sporting around the cows that had borne them . |
| 9 | Extrapolating these results to human diets , the lowest calcium concentration used in the present study ( 25 µmol/g ) reflects a daily intake of calcium of about 12.5 mmol ( 500 mg ) which is about 60% of the recommended dietary allowance for calcium . |
| 10 | Colipase is a heat stable , water soluble , non-enzymatic protein of molecular weight of about 10 kilo Daltons ( kDa ) . |
| 11 | A stone of about eighteen inch four by four with the appropriate heading I would have thought up to four names , depending on how many names there is in the |
| 12 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 13 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 14 | With dry , mainly sunny conditions lasting through till dusk , the temperature will rise steadily to a maximum of about 18 celsius . |
| 15 | Gastrin induced histamine release in a concentration-dependent fashion with threshold concentration of 2 pmol/l and reaching a maximum effect at a gastrin concentration of about 260–520 pmol/ l . |
| 16 | And though the yield of about 5 p.c. is historically high , British companies ' earnings cover is unusually thin and the growth prospects commensurately modest . |
| 17 | Hence part of the research will be case studies of about 6-8 IT initiatives , chosen for their diversity of aim and approach . |
| 18 | Most notable was the appearance of a flock of about 20 shore larks in clifftop fields at Gristhorpe between Cayton Bay and Filey . |
| 19 | By that year Bednota had a circulation of roughly 100,000 , with a network of about 4,000 peasant correspondents . |
| 20 | It is now possible to infer pH with a standard error of about 0.3 pH units . |
| 21 | It does not appear that there is any large scale production in this country , although there was a seizure in 1991 of about 0.7 kilo apparently made in a saucepan . |
| 22 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 23 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 24 | And then all of a sudden in a span of about three month a lot of deals started er going by the wayside let's say right . |
| 25 | There 's some in Nottingham , in one of the mus museum , that has the Nottingham coat of arms , I think it has the council house and various things , and it 's all done mechanically on a huge machine that er is a repetition in each bay It 's probably thirty , forty foot long , but in each bay of about seven foot it 's separate curtain . |
| 26 | It recommended , in brief , that council members confine themselves to debating broad issues of social policy , leaving the professionals responsible for the detailed execution ; that there should be fewer committees and a management board of about seven council members supported by a corresponding group of chief officers to make most policy decisions on a corporate basis . |
| 27 | He kept the glasses trained , and as he watched they turned into a herd of about seven buffalo filing slowly in their direction . |
| 28 | The amount used in this study given in three doses , however , is small compared with the usual lazative dose of about 60 mmol . |
| 29 | That could result in the redesignation of about 60 p.c. of the bonds as ‘ A ’ debt . |
| 30 | Anyway , off goes Sir Gordon to Ashdown House , Hastings , home of about 1,000 agency staff . |