Example sentences of "[noun sg] of about seven " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recommended , in brief , that council members confine themselves to debating broad issues of social policy , leaving the professionals responsible for the detailed execution ; that there should be fewer committees and a management board of about seven council members supported by a corresponding group of chief officers to make most policy decisions on a corporate basis . |
| 2 | The primary female lays a clutch of about seven eggs on average , laying one egg each day , generally in the morning . |
| 3 | He was a boy of about seven , big for his age , aggressive looking and with food adhering to his face in greasy red and brown streaks . |
| 4 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 5 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 6 | Sheikh , a small , pale boy of about seven , leaned forward in his desk . |
| 7 | This latter deviation can , of course , be used to make a circular walk from the station of about seven miles . |
| 8 | He kept the glasses trained , and as he watched they turned into a herd of about seven buffalo filing slowly in their direction . |
| 9 | From the age of about seven or eight , children , particularly girls , tend to form inseparable friendships . |
| 10 | I spent my whole childhood — from the age of about seven until the day I got my record contract — having rows with my parents … specifically my father , because he 's not very musical , to put it mildly . |
| 11 | As we saw earlier , Piaget argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven years ( i.e. , they do not understand that B because A and A because B mean different things ) . |
| 12 | On the basis of these results , Emerson argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven or eight years . |
| 13 | She held a plump baby of about seven months on her hip , and a toddler clutched at her cotton skirt . |
| 14 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 15 | There 's some in Nottingham , in one of the mus museum , that has the Nottingham coat of arms , I think it has the council house and various things , and it 's all done mechanically on a huge machine that er is a repetition in each bay It 's probably thirty , forty foot long , but in each bay of about seven foot it 's separate curtain . |
| 16 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 17 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 18 | A crowd of about seven or eight youths on their way out of a Chinese carryout were in high spirits . |
| 19 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |