Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years . |
| 2 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 3 | ‘ A Kenwood Chef we bought about eight years ago . |
| 4 | But last month the Department of the Environment revealed that , out of more than 1500 large dams it knew about 191 have no known owner — and many more have no certificate of safety . |
| 5 | So when they do finally get their car it goes about three miles to the gallon , and it , it really |
| 6 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 7 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 8 | At the moment we have about ten thousand people on our waiting list . |
| 9 | Got it all in their living room they got about four bloody great boxes full of bread rolls ! |
| 10 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 11 | Warwickshire , Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire … anbd on a clear day you see about 10 or 11 miles . |
| 12 | And my friend she looked about eighty |
| 13 | We got about erm on the first day we got about forty case . |
| 14 | And , I mean , actually on Christmas day we lost about ten people who 've been found ill . |
| 15 | But in those three advice centres er we receive er in round figures we receive about four hundred complaints and enquiries about shopping problems , every week , all the year round . |
| 16 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 18 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 19 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 20 | I 'd say on average I get about 10 letters every day . ’ |
| 21 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 22 | We have horrendous fraudulent situations and I would say as an average week we have about ten of those . |
| 23 | On trying to get this going in Hartlepool the other week they attracted about six men . |
| 24 | school holidays we only used to get a month they get about six weeks now I think but no we used to get a month 's holiday then . |
| 25 | We had one bloke come last week he lives about fifty yards from the shop . |
| 26 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 27 | By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen . |
| 28 | Well the answer is that residents ' parking was offered in North Oxford I think about ten years ago , when it got to the top of the City 's priority list . |
| 29 | In the lounge she saw about fifteen people , mostly men . |
| 30 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |