Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 2 | The cutters then took up position in a square around Guiding Lights which was still moving at about ten knots . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Inflation surged 2,500 per cent in 1992 and is currently running at about 30 per cent a month . |