Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 2 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 3 | In the first section , Standards Six and Seven were taught , the latter in a corner alcove , usually consisting of about twelve to fourteen boys . |
| 4 | The cutters then took up position in a square around Guiding Lights which was still moving at about ten knots . |
| 5 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 6 | The new government , perhaps not knowing what else to do , took the drastic step of freezing all savings , while abandoning wage indexing even though inflation was still running at about 8 per cent a month . |
| 7 | In 1989–90 it took in £5 billion and paid out £9 billion , the following year 's net outflow was £1 billion but for the year just ended there was a £1 billion inflow and now that the government really needs cash , it is probably looking for about £5 billion this year . |
| 8 | But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century , but the structure will be different . |
| 9 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 10 | Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK . |
| 11 | This is a series of square cloth-covered books , now amounting to about twenty volumes , in which every detail of every Lagerfeld day is collected in the form of polaroids , clippings , notes , little drawings . |
| 12 | Firstly , French Label Rouge poultry producers now accounting for about 20% of poultry consumption in France are required to provide trees for shade in order to qualify for the label . |
| 13 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 14 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 15 | There are also parts here belonging to about thirty other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 16 | There are also parts here belonging to about 30 other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 17 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 also took this view and promised to reduce the rate of inflation which was then running at about 12 per cent by reducing the rate of growth of M3 . |
| 18 | ‘ Inflation is rife , currently running at about 700pc . |
| 19 | Inflation surged 2,500 per cent in 1992 and is currently running at about 30 per cent a month . |
| 20 | The company , which wants the money to reduce net debt — currently standing at about £13m — and fund development , saw pre-tax profits rise 17 p.c. to £2.38m . |