Example sentences of "about [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These counts recorded totals of 23–50 birds in 1953 , about 290 in the period 1967–1968 , and 326 , including 98 young of the year , in 1971 . |
| 2 | After leaving school at around ten o'clock , we arrived at Cliff College at about four-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 3 | I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework . |
| 4 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 5 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 6 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 7 | It 's about right for a four hundred . |
| 8 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 9 | The Peppard club closed in about 1943 for , apart from the War , the golfers were in conflict with other users of the Common and could not enjoy their game any longer . |
| 10 | In Finland , which is probably the world 's most northerly agricultural country , there has been a similar fall in dairy-cow numbers to about 607,000 in 1986 and the main milk breed is the Finnish Ayrshire , which now represents about 80 per cent of the national herd , the country 's only other breeds being the Friesian ( 17 per cent ) and the amalgamated Finncattle ( 2 per cent and decreasing ) . |
| 11 | In the following decade its collection of plants increased from about 3000 to nearly 6000 , largely as a result of his correspondence with more than fifty botanists throughout the world . |
| 12 | At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory . |
| 13 | ATTENDANCES on Boxing Day totalled some 556,000 , an increase of about 82,000 on last year , and ITV also announced this week that viewing figures for live matches were up . |
| 14 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 15 | She also collects teddy bears and has about fifty of them . |
| 16 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 17 | Apparently , about fifty of these models were made and presented to former ‘ 262 pilots . |
| 18 | It would be sensible if about fifty of these planes could be sent to Korea and the pilots could be found in Korea . |
| 19 | About fifty of us filed in , clutching our drinks . |
| 20 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 21 | When me and Frank were in the in Lo in London we got about fifty of these bloody E mail catalogue come in the same address . |
| 22 | Discretion would appear to be ‘ the better part ’ ; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep — probably vertical — cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down . |
| 23 | Er , sixty five for breast , and I think they 're about fifty for the legs . |
| 24 | He was a tall , burly man of about fifty with greying hair . |
| 25 | You get about fifty with the package , and the balance when you send your registration card back — as good a reason as any for registering , since images of this quality are usually expensive to buy . |
| 26 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 27 | It should cruise along at about fifty at , you know , quarter throttle . |
| 28 | er for special services I invite everybody , and I 've got about fifty on my books which I think I can afford to go around when I get there , can you do a couple , they live near you |
| 29 | Instead , a selection of drawings ( including about fifty by Michelangelo ) together with small-scale models by the artist and by contemporary artists and followers , as well as sixteenth-and seventeenth-century engravings and paintings based on the artist 's sculpture , will aim to place Michelangelo 's sculptural activities in the context of his entire output . |
| 30 | The crowd was about fifty in number and stood about chatting and watching the riders . |