Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] about [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ian Cartwright , Doncaster director and chairman of the ADSS disabilities committee , said : ‘ I do n't see how it could be included in the transfers because most residents will be away from their homes for about two to three weeks . |
| 2 | They are currently the single most common cause of death in England and Wales accounting for about one-third of all child deaths . |
| 3 | This will result in the loss of about one-third of power generated . |
| 4 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 5 | Key parties of about ten of all ranks from each Company , were called up on 24 August . |
| 6 | Leave a gap of about 15 to 18mm between slabs |
| 7 | Together , the parents excavate a small cave 10–15cm deep , with an entrance of about 2–3cm in diameter . |
| 8 | The total fighting force is some 18,000 , which would probably mean a figure of about 72,000 for the whole migration . |
| 9 | There was , therefore , a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties . |
| 10 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 11 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 12 | Th th that 's a good programme on the light from about half past nine till twelve , you know . |
| 13 | Values of v lie between 0.5 for a polymer dissolved in a theta-solvent to about 0.8 in very good solvents for linear randomly coiling vinyl polymers , and typical values for systems studied by viscosity and sedimentation are given in table 9.3 . |
| 14 | He called at the Vicarage at about half past two and asked if he could see the church . |
| 15 | I had my cup of tea at about ten past eight , after Coronation Street . |
| 16 | Family and guests could be heard playing charades and blindman 's buff in the drawing room , and Mr Priddy snuffed out the candles , replacing them with new ones ready for tea at about ten in the evening when the table would again be laden with sweetmeats and delicacies . |
| 17 | After leaving school at around ten o'clock , we arrived at Cliff College at about four-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 18 | Each seminar will be staged ( not simultaneously ) at five locations throughout Britain to encourage attendance from as wide a geographical area as possible , and will be designed for groups of about 10 to 15 people to encourage maximum delegate participation . |
| 19 | This is caused by the corneo-retinal potential — a standing potential across the retina of about one-tenth of a volt . |
| 20 | Digital Instruments still relies on universities and research institutes for about half of its sales . |
| 21 | He had a shot out of sand of about 35 to 40 yards into the wind which is probably one of the toughest shots in golf . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind then that we have only half the story , we do have some indication of the social origins of about one-fifth of the sample , enough to be regarded as reasonably representative , |
| 23 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 24 | He was a stocky boy of about eleven with thick straight brown hair . |
| 25 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 26 | The human brain , particularly memory , works best for concentrated periods of about forty to fifty minutes . |
| 27 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 28 | She found one little girl of about four under a pile of masonry . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Terrestrial ages determined on Antarctic chondrites ( the most abundant type of meteorite found throughout the world , see Box 2 ) range from about 1000 to 700 000 years , with some clustering of ages in the range of 300 000 to 600 000 years . |