Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only goes to about five inches |
| 2 | Get rid of weed seedlings before they become young plants , and thin the herb seedlings when they are large enough to handle to about 6 rum ( t/4 in ) spacing , and when they have filled this , to their final spacing . |
| 3 | And then wages then for a labourer that er er assistants and stuff like that we only come to about two pound . |
| 4 | There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 7 | The grain tax usually amounted to about one-tenth the value of the rice crop , considerably less than the burden imposed on the Indian peasantry . |
| 8 | Thirty five for an ordinary one you know everything to my spouse or most of it to the spouse with bits to the children er well r we usually run to about thirty five pounds . |
| 9 | The Ahaggar is also volcanic , but activity ceased earlier than in the Tibesti and it is now more degraded , although the wrecks of the ancient volcanoes still reach to about 3000 m ( 10,000 ft ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Before this tragedy , our immediate family probably amounted to about 15 to 20 people … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The walls probably stood to about 5 feet in height with heavy cruck roofs ( formed from trusses built with bent timbers ) on top of them . |
| 13 | 2 : The market share for nuclear electricity in the UK may slightly increase to about 25 per cent in 1995 , but it will decline to a mere 1pc by the year 2020 ( source : DTI Energy Paper 59 , 1992 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million . |
| 16 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 17 | There are also parts here belonging to about thirty other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 18 | There are also parts here belonging to about 30 other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 19 | The group , which will initially amount to about 20 people , will be based at ICL 's new development centre at Gorton in Manchester . |