Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos there were we were only getting about five bob a week aye . |
| 2 | Looking at what the examples given by Which are concerned the solicitor was only charging about thirty percent of what the bank would . |
| 3 | They eat more in the Irish Republic ( 23.7kg per capita ) , which is a major beef-exporting country producing 570,000 tonnes per annum but only consuming about 84,000 tonnes at home . |
| 4 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 5 | Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know , |
| 6 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 7 | Approximately one hour after the onset of sleep , rapid eye movements beneath the closed lids occur ( termed " paradoxical sleep " ) , usually lasting about twenty minutes . |
| 8 | The introduction of the microcomputer , and in particular the BBC range , is also bringing about fundamental change and development within the curriculum . |
| 9 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 10 | you 'd be fed up sitting about all day and all night |
| 11 | Spring passage is also quite slight , numbers rarely exceeding about 10 birds in any spring . |
| 12 | The machine is scalable from eight to over 1,000 processors , in the latter case theoretically doing about 10,000 transactions per second against about 450 for a large conventional mainframe . |
| 13 | After the US invasion the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) had been remodelled into a new Public Force , currently numbering about 12,000 men . |
| 14 | Yeah is currently running about six vacancies light . |
| 15 | We 're , we 're currently running about fifteen minutes late . |