Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A concurrent trade fair will comprise stands of about fifty museums , exhibition specialists and suppliers . |
| 32 | More than 50 international banks and management consultancies have been allocated packets of about 10 companies each , and are charged with preparing sales memos and finding buyers . |
| 33 | They are survivors of about 180 such towers in Medieval Bologna . |
| 34 | A CRT light-pen was used for input of script , and possible answers were lists of about 20 words . |
| 35 | Both individuals were walking slowly with mean steps of about 43 cm and mean strides of about 87 cm . |
| 36 | Mr Clarke said the working plans were for about five units with about 40 places each . |
| 37 | The twin citizens ' movements , Civic Forum in the Czech Lands and Public Against Violence ( PAV ) in Slovakia , emerged as the clear winners with about half the total votes cast ; there was a turnout of 96.7 per cent of the electorate of 11,247,000 . |
| 38 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 39 | Since complete title pages , in the modern sense , appear in most books from about 1520 , the colophon thereafter declined in use and , where found , gives only cursory information in extension or confirmation of what was stated at the outset . |
| 40 | The petrological analysis has not been compared with the distribution of die-sets , yet the sheer volume of material , about 200 vessels from about twelve sites , one being the settlement of West Stow in Suffolk , might seem to argue strongly that the products are from a single workshop . |
| 41 | Catalysts are expected to cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars to about 10 per cent by 1989 levels by the year 2006 . |
| 42 | President Rafsanjani on July 2 sent messages of thanks to about 100 governments and organizations , excluding , however , the United States , the UK , Iraq and Saudi Arabia . |
| 43 | Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation continued for up to 30 Ma after the emplacement of the intrusions at about 400 Ma . |
| 44 | A Berlin police spokesperson on June 11 estimated membership in eastern Germany of radical right-wing organizations at about 1,500-2,000 and supporters at about 30,000 . |
| 45 | One says the main problems are rival groups of casuals coming out of the discos and restaurants at about 4.30 , and the crowds that gather round the kebab shops . |
| 46 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 47 | This was to be achieved by increasing the cost of buying and running cars by about 50 per cent . |
| 48 | In Lepidoptera , Homoptera and Orthoptera on the other hand , R.Q values of about 0–7 occur and fat reserves are depleted . |
| 49 | These schools take children between the ages of about 8 and 13 and prepare them for competitive entry to the public schools . |
| 50 | In both cases it can be shown that the saturated areas of the Moon have ages of about 4200 Ma . |
| 51 | We are thinking of people between the ages of about 35 and about 60 years ; but one would not care to argue these limits to within five years or so . |
| 52 | A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs . |
| 53 | However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older . |
| 54 | While most young male dogs go through a period of excessive sexual behaviour and can be a little too pushy for their own good with older males between the ages of about ten months and two years , they usually calm down and become more sociable with other dogs and less strife to have around the home . |
| 55 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 56 | The government is reviewing the cases of about 60 people sentenced for political or security offences to see if they might qualify for pardon . |
| 57 | Both these families had sons of about twenty , both had been in the crowd that won the signature from Menzies of Bolfracks . |
| 58 | Groups of about 5 cells were illuminated alternately with light of 350 nm and 380 nm wavelengths by means of amotor driven filter change wheel . |
| 59 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 60 | Each seminar will be staged ( not simultaneously ) at five locations throughout Britain to encourage attendance from as wide a geographical area as possible , and will be designed for groups of about 10 to 15 people to encourage maximum delegate participation . |