Example sentences of "[noun pl] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation continued for up to 30 Ma after the emplacement of the intrusions at about 400 Ma . |
| 2 | A Berlin police spokesperson on June 11 estimated membership in eastern Germany of radical right-wing organizations at about 1,500-2,000 and supporters at about 30,000 . |
| 3 | One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops . |
| 4 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 5 | If you have to stand for a while at work or in a queue , it would be helpful to have one leg behind the other with the feet at about 45 degrees to each other . |
| 6 | or 10,000 MN/m2 but in practice a crystal of really pure iron shears at about 3,000 p.s.i . |
| 7 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 8 | Married women and widows who do not qualify for a basic pension in their own right may be entitled to a basic pension on their husband 's contributions at about 60 per cent of the level to which he is entitled ( see ‘ Pensions for women ’ at the end of the chapter ) . |
| 9 | The proportion of the London equity market accounted for by private shareholders appears to have stabilised in the past two years at about 18 per cent . |
| 10 | They become mature and adult for working purposes at about eight or nine months and will continue to work for the duration of their life . |
| 11 | For example , most infants smile to visual stimuli at about 5 weeks of age . |
| 12 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 13 | Isa , the chairman of the local Assembly executive committee , began proceedings at about 5.30 p.m. ; at sunset the audience moved to the east end of the playground and , the glowing sky colouring their white clothes , said their prayers ; at about 7.30 Isa adjourned the meeting . |
| 14 | We arrived in Swansea locks at about 1800 , and were locking through in company with a small Channel Island registered coaster when a local officer passed a message down to us . |
| 15 | Both were young men on their way to work , and both said they were very frequently stopped by police at about 5 am as they went to work . |
| 16 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 17 | The franchise was limited to Estonian citizens , leaving the total number of eligible voters at about 690,000 . |
| 18 | Solutions of the polymer are prepared in a concentration series and clarified either by centrifugation for a few hours at about 25 000 g , or filtered through a grade 5 sinter glass filter . |
| 19 | Our postman looks as if he tips the scales at about twenty stone . ’ |
| 20 | Many lorries ' peaks were recorded on Dr. Walker 's graphs at about 80 . |
| 21 | Vessey et al report an increasing incidence with age , which peaks at about 6 per 1000 woman years between 40 and 44 ( p 182 ) . |
| 22 | After Eden had returned from the House , there might be another meeting of Suez Ministers at about 4.30 or 5.00 pm , and another between 10.00 and 11.00 pm , to give Sir Pierson Dixon in New York his final briefing for the United Nations , which would come to the boil about 12.30 or 1.00 am in our time , i.e. 7.30 to 8.00 in New York . |
| 23 | The first incoming raid appeared on the radar screens at about 1345 , still 32 miles from the ships . |
| 24 | When they emerged from their slumbers at about five o'clock in the afternoon , they repaired to the tea-house in the main street , calling for tea and seishas , or water-pipes . |
| 25 | Read reasonably clean documents at about 20 characters per second ( exclusive of training ) ; |
| 26 | We were soon alongside the small vessel as she pitched uncomfortably in the short Channel seas at about six knots , and we requested her in our usual polite manner to divert into Folkestone for a customs examination . |
| 27 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 28 | Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years — even if they have daily injections of insulin . |
| 29 | Where exposure is severe due to wind-funnelling in cols at about 200 metres elevation , subalpine podzols occupy the crests of the moraine hummocks . |