Example sentences of "at about [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bombay to Perth at about eight hundred and fifty kilometres an hour |
| 2 | I came back at about eight this morning in time to get his breakfast and found the dog outside the back door , whining . ’ |
| 3 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 4 | Erm membership of the Incorporated Society of Musicians which comes at about seventy eight pounds a year does actually include public liability |
| 5 | It is thought that there might , it might have remained in the hands of some diplomats who were transferring it , and there were two of these issues , there is one in a private collection at present , so this is a second one , and number eight which is coming out for sale , but the number seven did change hands er a couple of years ago , so at about fifty five thousand pounds I believe . |
| 6 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 7 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 8 | The guests were eventually ushered out at about eleven forty-five . |
| 9 | This emphasis has tended to eclipse developments in analysis of the Middle Pleistocene record , which begins with the Mauer ( Heidelberg ) mandible ( estimated age about 500 kyr ) and ends at about 130 kry , after which time undoubted Neanderthals were present in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 11 | The U K's voluntary sector is large , its turnover is estimated at about seventeen billion . |
| 12 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |
| 13 | The bed lies at about present high tide level , so that there is no indication of marine action at levels as high as at present . |
| 14 | They supported a total population estimated at about 100 million , which remained more or less static from 1600 to 1850 — or about 5 people per square mile of cultivable land . |
| 15 | Resources have been estimated at about 200 million tonnes at 0.3 per cent Cu . |
| 16 | Incidentally , I spoke to him by house telephone yesterday evening shortly after eight o'clock and , again , at about nine fifteen . |
| 17 | Note the minor peak at 0.55 m ( in the green region of the visible spectrum ) and the sharp rise in reflectance at about 0.8 m . |
| 18 | The annual prevalence rate for the entire population of Greater Glasgow in 1983 was estimated at about 4 known opioid users per 1,000-the same as in Wirral . |
| 19 | The price for the main North Sea Brent blend of crude oil firmed slightly to $17.81 a barrel as traders awaited signs that the cartel would implement proposals for a cut of one million barrels per day ( bpd ) to set its production ceiling at about 23.6 million bpd from 1 March . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The turnout was much smaller than for the Coalisland — Dungannon march , at about four hundred . |
| 22 | The first of the 35,000 runners in the London Marathon will head along Lower Thames Street , close to the City blast site , at about 11.05 this morning . |
| 23 | Inflation this year is now expected to be 3.5 per cent , with a similar figure next year , while unemployment is now expected to level off at about 3.1 million this year and next , reflecting the fact that companies have already shed labour faster than in previous cycles . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've seen those sods before , they always keep a few Fokkers lurking at about five thousand . |
| 25 | ‘ On Thursday the first of July , after Evensong in his church at Markham cum Cumbermound for a congregation of two , at about five fifteen , Paul Gray stepped back to the Vicarage for a sandwich and a glass of milk before going into Medewich to fetch Mr Jefferson of Markham Terrace who , as was his practice , was going to help Gray with his youth club in Markham cum Cumbermound . |
| 26 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 27 | The collision occurred at about 9.15 this morning , when there was torrential rain across much of the Cotswolds . |
| 28 | Well if he says he wa he wants his wife to have twenty thousand a year , I mean you 're looking at about two hundred and fifty , three hundred thousand gross |
| 29 | The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year . |
| 30 | Granny says she heard Matthew 's key in the lock at about two twenty-five … ’ |