Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to about [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | tell I were n't going to about half past six , seven . |
| 5 | There are also parts here belonging to about thirty other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |
| 6 | There are also parts here belonging to about 30 other vehicles , the lot totalling around a £100,000 . |