Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company only turned over about three million pounds last year , and made profits of just over a hundred thousand . |
| 2 | As the helicopter came down to land , to their dismay they saw that the organizers had not only laid on about fifteen different activities for the Prince to inspect , including mountain-bike scrambling ; but children from no fewer than five primary schools were gathered together in great banks to greet him . |
| 3 | Earlier lava flows , before the coming of man , date back a million years , but since that time the Colorado River has only cut down about 50 feet . |
| 4 | Haulms are normally burnt off about two weeks before lifting commences . |
| 5 | Distributors , Rampus , tell us that Swedish Railways who are supplied by British company G.N. Unwin , have already fitted out about 50 carriages and that more will follow . |
| 6 | It is also much enhanced by the middle projection of columned porch and bell tower , probably added in about 1840 . |
| 7 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 8 | The difference between a ‘ Wilton ’ and an ‘ Axminster ’ carpet , both of which are now made by about fifty different companies in Britain , is in the type of weave . |
| 9 | With cautious feeding the new culture should be well established in about two weeks . |
| 10 | Having ideas is a pretty inscrutable process — rather well described in about 600 pages by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation — and is a very personal thing : different people who are good at it go about it in different ways . |
| 11 | This potential was fully realised in about 1988 . |
| 12 | I went one better and something happened that has never occurred in about 25 years of using the modern type of machine with yarn mast and tension spring . |
| 13 | It was actually put up about 1670 after a sketch by Francesco Caratti . |