Example sentences of "about [num] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About fifty conclusions dashed through my head , all of them disastrous . |
| 2 | He gets about fifty pounds does n't he ? |
| 3 | There was room for about fifty women sitting comfortably on either side of the cloth . |
| 4 | No he gets I think he gets about fifty boxes given to him and of course he does n't smoke so he just |
| 5 | And you used to have to fetch your water from the pump 's head , just round the corner , outside toilets , we used to have to go about fifty yards to use the toilet . |
| 6 | A group of about 1,500 loyalists , including Ian Paisley and Unionist members of Dungannon council , were gathered behind the police tenders , with a gap of about fifty yards separating the rival groups . |
| 7 | And I had to walk about fifty yards to get to the van because it was it was in an area that had been partly pedestrianized . |
| 8 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 9 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 10 | About 500 schools sent in entries from people aged 14-18 . |
| 11 | Only about 500 dolphins remain , however , and the species is verging on extinction . |
| 12 | A US military spokesman , Colonel Fred Peck , said yesterday he expected about 4,200 troops to travel by sea from Mogadishu to Kismayu within the next 24 hours . |
| 13 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 14 | During the first two weeks about 180 children arrived at Great Engeham . |
| 15 | About 180 Ghanaians arrived in Accra , the Ghanaian capital , on Aug. 13 after being deported by Libya as part of a drive to expel illegal immigrants from African countries . |
| 16 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 17 | The tour was originally booked , I think , for about eight cities starting in Cleveland , then Memphis , then New York . |
| 18 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 19 | ‘ There are about eight horses coughing now , and the decision to move them away from Kings Fountain appears to have worked because he is still in fine shape , ’ the Lambourn trainer said . |
| 20 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 21 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 22 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 23 | But his first major prose work — The Allegory of Love — took about eight years to complete . |
| 24 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 25 | He will need to jump about 120 feet to clear the 20ft high wall , and will also perform stunts in an 85,000-seat stadium watched on TV by an estimated one billion people . |
| 26 | About forty-seven bands had competed in Uppermill in 1984 , but there were ninety-four bands touring the area . |
| 27 | By late August about 225,000 refugees had crossed into Jordan , forcing the government to turn to international aid agencies for help . |
| 28 | Tiu said that about 70 countries had already recognized Moldova as an independent state , and that relations with Hungary would be a first step to closer integration with Europe . |
| 29 | The Complete Knocked Down ( CKD ) option contains all the required parts presorted , and takes about 70 hours to complete , while the Component Form requires only 20 hours of the simplest work to finish the car . |
| 30 | About 70 friends travelled with the couple from their home in Pimlico , just north of the Thames , to help the happy couple celebrate in Jersey . |