Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His analysis of the occupations recorded in the Northampton militia list for 1777 , which names men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if required , reveals that craftsmen formed about half of Northampton 's adult male workforce . |
| 2 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 3 | In 1845 Thomas Hartshorne had told a parliamentary enquiry that Thurmaston had about 400 frames , which specialized in the production of children 's socks and a few gloves . |
| 4 | Davidson added that Somerset has about four cases to hear next week which means that Chilcott is left kicking his heels for another seven days . |
| 5 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 6 | Warning that the future level and pace of North Sea development could be put at risk , he pointed out that estimates suggests about 100,000 Scottish jobs were directly or indirectly oil-related . |
| 7 | In 1936 the Ministry of Labour carried out a pioneer survey of private sector employers ' pension scheme membership , finding that women comprised about 20 per cent of the total membership of around 1.6 million persons . |
| 8 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 9 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 10 | There are about 100,000 hairs on the scalp — blondes have least , brunettes most — and hair grows about half an inch a month . |
| 11 | The Comoros presidential guard yesterday used teargas and clubs to disperse about 1,000 student protesters demanding that the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men go home . |
| 12 | The Comoros presidential guard yesterday used teargas and clubs to disperse about 1,000 student protesters demanding that the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men go home . |
| 13 | so she just had the rice and an egg with it and Gemma had about three pasties and I had stuffed tomatoes with rice and erm , what did I do with , I done rata , ratatouille and |
| 14 | In all , Partnership and HELP produced about 360 dwellings which in the early 1980s were selling at prices of between £14 000 and £24 000 , with most fetching below £20 000 . |
| 15 | The existing programme represents a commitment by National Power and PowerGen to retrofit about 8 GW . |
| 16 | Until 1961 des Forges and Harber gave about 14 records in addition to the small influx involving c. 5 5 birds in the frost of February 1956 . |
| 17 | Quail occasionally occur in winter , and des Forges and Harber gave about 14 such records until 1960 , although only four of these were after 1900 . |
| 18 | Until 1960 des Forges and Harber gave about 60 records records for the period late May to early November ; most reports were for June , September and October . |
| 19 | Until 1947 des Forges and Harber give about 17 records , and there have been six since 1964 . |
| 20 | But there are a few inland records ; des Forges and Harber give about 14 until 1961 , and there were 12 , comprising 45 birds , between 1962 and 1972 , including a party of 25 at Weir Wood Reservoir on 25 June 1972 ; there has been none since . |
| 21 | Until 1929 des Forges and Harber give about 20 records involving about 27 birds . |
| 22 | From 1986 to 1989 , the USSR , GDR , Cuba , Vietnam , and China gave about thirty percent of bilateral technical assistance ( Ibid . ) . |
| 23 | The actual process of thinking , discussing and planning brings about this enormous enhancement of self-belief . ’ |
| 24 | A settlement of flats and bungalows house about 20 senior citizens , with a resident warden . |
| 25 | Contemporary accounts describe a reading room and library containing about 700 volumes and 16 papers . |
| 26 | Later that day a boy was killed and rioters left about 100 state buildings , banks and co-operative stores burned or looted . |
| 27 | Casualties on the Afghan side were far greater more than a million people were killed in the country as a whole , with the government party and forces sustaining about 70,000 of these losses . |
| 28 | Generated in the body as a result of radiation , chemical pollutants , medicinal drugs and stress , free radicals can damage cells and tissues bringing about premature ageing . |
| 29 | Ian and Anne live about 8 miles out , on the Otago peninsula . |
| 30 | The caramel and crisped wheat milk chocolate bar , looks , costs and tastes like a regular bar , but carbohydrate constitutes about 60 per cent , with fat down to around 30 per cent . |