Example sentences of "[verb] about [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 2 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |
| 3 | I erm run about erm ten kilometres and with this E P O , I run about two and a half — three minutes faster than before . |
| 4 | Penguin the staff reduction there does n't look particularly er high but then we were reducing staff there last year and we 've er , we 've disposed of Smithmark and the travel guides er , the warehouse and distribution system is working very well and we 've been adding distribu distribution clients there er the autumn list looks very strong indeed particularly in the U S especially and er , we 've shipped er , over two million of Stephen King 's latest book and there 's another one due in the autumn and we 're expecting to ship about two and a half million of er of , of that one . |
| 5 | It was sold about seven and a half years ago to its US distributors . |
| 6 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 7 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 8 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 9 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 10 | The principal floor is raised about two and a half feet . |
| 11 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 12 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 13 | The Nuffield has been treating about two and a half thousand routine cases every year . |
| 14 | I reckon about four and a half . |
| 15 | The population of the town numbered about 5,000 and the House of Industry was designed to accommodate two hundred persons ; men , women and children . |
| 16 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
| 17 | took about two and a half , two hours did n't it ? |
| 18 | there shanks usually weigh about two and a half pound |
| 19 | It clearly influenced the League of Nations Union ‘ Peace Ballot ’ , held in June 1935 and involving about eleven and a half million people , the majority of whom voted in favour of disarmament and the need for collective military action against aggressor nations should economic sanctions fail . |
| 20 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 21 | We send out details to the schools each year , and they will book to bring a party of children round for , oh it lasts about two and a half hours altogether , and they will come either for a morning or for an afternoon . |
| 22 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |