Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a boat-train that goes at about half-nine , I think . ’ |
| 2 | Examples include odour and taste discrimination , with important effects on the evolution of language and cuisine ; preference from infancy onward for certain basic geometric designs over others ; phoneme formation ; rules of transformational grammar ; the development of particular , species-wide facial expressions to denote the emotions of fear , loathing , anger , surprise , and happiness ; various other forms of nonverbal communication ; the pattern of mother-infant bonding ; the method of infant holding by women ; fear of strangers ( a usually strong response that persists from about six to eighteen months ) ; phobias ; and others ( see the review by Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 4 | Produces an immediate high that lasts for about ten minutes followed by a deep low and often instant addiction |
| 5 | Thijs et al have postulated that pregnancy exerts an effect that disappears after about five years . |
| 6 | Between them , on a stretch of featureless coastline that runs for about forty miles , is a score of small , isolated settlements . |
| 7 | Even companies doing relatively well must keep the tightest control on costs in the prevailing climate , and Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a voluntary severance-incentive programme to employees in some job categories , and looks for about 2,700 employees to leave in early 1993 , about 2,000 of them in the US . |
| 8 | This figure is derived from national mortality statistics taken from death certificates and equates to about four asthma deaths per 100000 population per year . |
| 9 | This emphasis has tended to eclipse developments in analysis of the Middle Pleistocene record , which begins with the Mauer ( Heidelberg ) mandible ( estimated age about 500 kyr ) and ends at about 130 kry , after which time undoubted Neanderthals were present in Europe . |
| 10 | It 's perfect for short , layered or medium-length hair and lasts for about six weeks . |
| 11 | Sale starts Wednesday , December 23 and lasts for about three weeks . |
| 12 | It is called Shilling Green and dates from about 1800 , but much of its charm has been removed by over-large extensions . |
| 13 | During the harvest , which starts in September and continues for about six weeks , an enormous machine is driven up to the tree trunk , which it locks in a mechanical embrace . |
| 14 | Gets here as near eight-thirty as makes no odds , and works till about ten . |