Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It a is actually a lot better because you can get them usually get them down to about five p a copy . |
| 2 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |
| 3 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 4 | I did n't drop him off till about twenty past , twenty five past ten . |
| 5 | So we picked her up at about twenty to three and we took her back there at quarter to eight ? |
| 6 | He knocked it on to about 35 feet . |
| 7 | The last play I worked out that w we had one four hundred and thirty seven of those thirty seven would be er freebies to the homes in , in to bring it down to about four hundred and on the ticket money we took in , I would say about a hundred and twenty of those were erm er concessions . |
| 8 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 9 | I wrote back saying , get on with it , and incidentally we overestimated the shipment cost , brought it down to about half , got to be awfully careful there , because some of these bits are so big , they , and today he said , customer will make decision only after ten days , since final size of assortment is under preparation , meantime with your offered price and revised delivery time , it looks very difficult to book this order . |
| 10 | Since then , Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett have whittled it down by about 2 seconds . |
| 11 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 12 | and then tie it up for about three weeks . |
| 13 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 14 | If we can take it back to about eighteen ninety |