Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major difference between the dictionaries is the number of words defined — learner 's dictionaries tend to contain about 30,000 headwords , general purpose dictionaries ( e.g. CED ) have about 100,000 definitions , Websters Third New International has 450,000 and the Oxford English Dictionary has about 500,000 definitions . |
| 2 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 3 | I had to go to work about nine . |
| 4 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 5 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 8 | Christina took a big gulp of champagne , and wondered what on earth she was going to find to talk about all evening with this woman . |
| 9 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 10 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 11 | That investigation is expected to last about 4 weeks . |
| 12 | This increase is expected to last about 18 months at which point a further upgrade will be required . |
| 13 | At the outset of the campaign , allied spokesmen suggested the air-only phase was expected to last about ten days . |
| 14 | The satellite transmitters have an effective life of 10 months , while the smaller radio transmitters are expected to last about 15 weeks . |
| 15 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 16 | The decision was expected to cost about 100,000 jobs in Bonn , and would affect property prices both in Bonn and in Berlin . |
| 17 | They were required to leave their beds and get out of the hostel by nine o'clock in the morning , and they were not expected to hang about any more until about five or more in the evening . |
| 18 | The whole bridal party are expected to arrive about ten minutes before the ceremony . |
| 19 | Weight loss does lower the metabolism in that every time you lose one pound , you will need to eat about 18 calories a day less to stay at a stable weight . |
| 20 | Most of her rent — £96 a month — is covered by housing benefit but she still has to pay about half of her poll tax . |
| 21 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 22 | The procedure is expected to take about 5 hours . |
| 23 | The process , which was expected to take about six months beginning in April 1992 , would be voluntary until the situation in Cambodia was clearly non-threatening . |
| 24 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 25 | The procedure is expected to take about 3 hours . |
| 26 | The procedure is expected to take about 2 hours . |
| 27 | In all five , inspections had uncovered fissures in the cooling systems , requiring emergency repairs which were expected to take about three weeks . |
| 28 | Hold up this measured piece of work to the machine , neither stretching nor easing and you find you appear to need about 120 stitches . |
| 29 | A British company that has nothing to do with the American rail network , Amtrak is expanding and wants to recruit about 200 new franchisees in the next year . |
| 30 | The plan is expected to involve about 40 redundancies — mainly sub-editors - as management believes the company is overstaffed when compared with new newspapers . |