Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 2 | The decline in mortality rates , which had traditionally cut off marriage after about twenty years , was not yet offset by rising divorce rates . |
| 3 | Of the 50,000 red deer shot annually in Scotland , only 30 per cent are shot for sport and about half of these by paying clients . |
| 4 | In 1982 , for example , among the chairmen of INI firms were 16 ex-ministers , 10 members of parliament and about 20 senior civil servants linked with the governing party UCD and with the Francoist regime ( El Socialista , 15–21 September 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 6 | He 's o What was he on he was drinking , what a bottle and a half of vodka and about fifteen pints of cider a day . |
| 7 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 8 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 9 | I 've only got one round case and about two vol au vents |
| 10 | We can not work above 7½ hours in winter and about 12 in summer . " |
| 11 | During speed changes the supply voltage may decrease front 40 V to 30 V and therefore the phase current reduces from 4 A to 3 A. For simplicity assume a linear voltage decay , so the average current and the rate of change of voltage with time is if the capacitor value is The periods of constant speed operation are in duration and about 5 time constants are required for the capacitor to re-charge : The maximum charging current occurs immediately after the transistor switch is opened . |
| 12 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 13 | This property had been well built , the archway was some fifteen feet in height and about ten feet in width . |
| 14 | It was oblong in form about 36 feet in length and about 16 feet in width , and two storeys high . |
| 15 | The lower jaw was embedded among the ribs and the whole remains occupied a space of 95 cm in length and about 16 cm in depth . |
| 16 | Ten kilometres in length and about 25 kilometres on its shore line , the lake provides lots of recreational activities . |
| 17 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 18 | The round cheeses were about eight inches in diameter and about two inches thick . |
| 19 | We had four on board and about 70 US gallons of fuel , a good half tank giving us more than 90 minutes flying . |
| 20 | Since then , more PC users have come on stream and about 460 people have now been linked into the whole network . |
| 21 | The cells seem to jostle for position and about 40 cells leave the wall and enter the hollow interior . |
| 22 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |