Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 2 | On Tuesday a Seder meal accommodating about 25 will take place . |
| 3 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 4 | There 's a housing estate built about forty years ago on a disused pit . |
| 5 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 6 | In the early Carboniferous , the Variscan geo-syncline of North Europe , the Cornwall-Rhenish basin , formed an east-west basin stretching about 2000 km from Russia to the west of Ireland . |