Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some exhibitors will bring a tray containing about forty berries which have to be classified by colour and weighed . |
| 2 | It was also agreed between the two Districts that if any courses were proposed within a zone extending about three miles on either side of their new , shared boundary the Districts would confer to determine how the demand might best be met . |
| 3 | Feeling euphoric at having won this ‘ victory ’ , they decided to extend their actions in a campaign to bring about more liberty and democracy in other areas of social life . |
| 4 | Now let us pause for a moment to think about two landmarks in Mrs O 's progress . |
| 5 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 6 | The turbulent wind behind a sail extends about five boards length downwind and if you are sailing in this area your speed can be as much as halved . |
| 7 | A sample weighing about 30 mg is drilled from an inconspicuous area of the object , usually the base . |
| 8 | Right opposite the club was a court containing about ten houses , built against the old city rampart . |
| 9 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 10 | A man standing about forty feet away . |
| 11 | But the existence of her precious archive was unsuspected until a suitcase containing about 450 glass negatives was discovered during a house-clearance at Ripon in 1988 . |
| 12 | The trouble with all these lines is that when you get to a length exceeding about fifty miles ( 80km ) , the curvature of the Earth begins to become significant : a straight line on the map is not necessarily a straight line on the ground . |
| 13 | A rat tested about 24 hours after being taught does as well as one tested just after being taught , and much better than one tested 12 hours after being taught . |
| 14 | There were about twenty tents and makeshift lean-tos in a semi-circle spanning about forty yards of the fence . |
| 15 | Few proposals have been agreed , five months after the idea was approved by Mr Lamont , Chancellor , in an attempt to save about 40,000 families from having their homes repossessed . |
| 16 | The British Airports Authority is currently an organization employing about 7000 staff based at seven separate physical locations , three in the South East and four in Scotland . |