Example sentences of "[noun prp] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stravinsky himself upgraded quite a few of his own tempo indications , Nagano more so — there is a case for regarding Eumolpus 's solo at fig 118 ( track 2 , 8′41″ ) as too extreme : quaver=84 is the marking , Stravinsky is at about 100 , Nagano at about 125 — but I can find no evidence of undue haste . |
| 2 | Apart from getting arrested in Hungary because we apparently missed out the customs post and had driven about 3 miles from the border before being caught by a car and made to return , we arrived safety at Gyor at about 10.30 pm . |
| 3 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ Two inmates were found unconscious in their cells on Saturday at about 2.55 pm . |
| 4 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 5 | One Saturday at about 3 o'clock when the 2.47 had not long gone through and he had put the ‘ line clear ’ through , he was standing at the window and saw the lad . |
| 6 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 7 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 8 | From that date no trains ran beyond Blodwell Junction which , until 1979 , continued to be served by a mineral train which left Oswestry at about 11.45 am . |
| 9 | 2 tax inspectors and a bailiff visited the terraced house in Sidney Street at about 4.00 p.m. , apparently to repossess Jones ' van for non-payment of tax . |
| 10 | They proceeded up the Huntingdon Road at about 20 m.p.h. or sometimes 30 m. p. h. , a suitable pace for cars and roads of those days . |
| 11 | This was a man seen running in Purser Road at about 7.45 on Friday morning . |
| 12 | On Tuesday Tony was to travel by train due to leave Machynlleth for Pwllheli at about 9.45 a.m. , after an early breakfast . |
| 13 | Her absence was registered by Fru Møller at about ten o'clock and she did not mention it to anyone . |
| 14 | Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity . |
| 15 | I finally spent about 20 minutes just enjoying the VFR day , pottering round within sight of Breighton at about 1000 ft and occasionally putting the Aeronca into a tight turn over a copse , or a particular field , just for the sheer exhilaration of flying this aerial Citroen 2CV . |
| 16 | We arrived in New York at about ten o'clock at night . |
| 17 | The sword is returned to the Cathedral the following Thursday at about two o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ Deemy ’ estimated the population of Irkutsk at about 175,000 . |
| 19 | The 23-year-old woman was walking home along Blackthorn Avenue on the Greenstead estate in Colchester at about 11.35 pm on Tuesday when the man grabbed her from behind . |
| 20 | Police are want particularly to contact someone who was driving a black K-registration car near the green at Writtle at about 3 pm on Wednesday . |
| 21 | Alan Dawtrey was driving a Metro at about 80 mph on the wrong side of the road before it smashed into a lorry coming in the opposite direction , Oxford Crown Court heard . |
| 22 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 23 | On 12 May Macmillan arrived at Eighth Army headquarters at Treviso with his assistant Philip Broad at about 10.30 am . |
| 24 | Bombay to Perth at about eight hundred and fifty kilometres an hour |
| 25 | You left Chris at about 10.30 on Saturday night and cycled home ? ’ |
| 26 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 27 | Group 4 — 65 men — were landing at the north end of the town , putting the defenders under pressure from two sides , while 30 men of Group 5 had landed from HMS Oribi at about 1000 hours . |