Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Nottingham had about three attempts to pinch , and er the last one they were told to put their own house in order , first , because conditions were so much better than in the city . |
| 2 | The ‘ ideal ’ old people 's home has about fifty beds , mostly in single rooms , and accommodates both men and women . |
| 3 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 4 | The company has several other industrial and government partners , including Boeing Co , Du Pont Co , Ford Motor Co and the National Security Agency , but IBM 's $100m-plus represents about half the total raised by the company , and IBM has also supplied top managers to the company . |
| 5 | In the pilot scheme , the centre 's staff took about 20 hours to compile one chart , largely because it had to do much of the cartography by hand . |
| 6 | In particular , the designers did not realize that in a relatively small collection ( PCL 's catalogue contained about 90,000 titles ) by far the most frequent cause of a specific item search " failure " is collection failure . |
| 7 | He notes that performances of the piece by such contemporary Mahler exponents as Bernstein , Abbado , Levine , Karajan , Tennstedt and Maazel average around 12 minutes ' duration , while Haitink 's recording takes about 14 minutes , and Scherchen 's lasts a full quarter of an hour . |
| 8 | Butcher 's union had about 300 members for most of the 1880s ; under his successors , Beresford and Friend , membership fluctuated from about 70 to 200 . |
| 9 | Training the system to recognise the user 's voice takes about three hours and involves dictating 200 so-called ‘ control ’ words , three times each , into the system . |
| 10 | Women 's clothes show about eight variations in the position of dress-fasteners , with one , two or three brooches being worn in varying position on the shoulders and chest , sometimes with sleeve fasteners ( frequently referred to as ‘ wrist clasps ’ ) particularly in eastern England . |
| 11 | The basis for education 's ability to bring about this process of social reproduction lies in what Bourdieu terms cultural capital . |
| 12 | The King 's palace covers about eleven square kilometres : the main rooms are eighty metres high . |
| 13 | Al Palanza Jr 's brother died about two weeks before the letter arrived from Greenville County Department of Social Services , he said . |
| 14 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |
| 15 | All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years ' improvement to bring about secondary education for all . |
| 16 | Six — year — old child carried about 56 lbs of coal about ten to 14 times per day . |