Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 2 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 3 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
| 4 | Some Dell notebooks let you change the battery with the machine still switched on , by making sure there 's enough standby power to run the machine for about a minute . |
| 5 | They say the body was probably in the compost for about a week . |
| 6 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 7 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |
| 8 | Yeah I I usually find myself having just deposited Spike at the station at about a quarter past nine and then I 'm in town and er able to do things in town . |
| 9 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |
| 10 | He took her amusement in good part , however , and he took his eyes off her to study the menu for about a minute . |
| 11 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its facsimile software for Unix unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 12 | Will it not produce the equivalent of about a quarter of the nuclear arsenals of both the Soviet Union and the United States at their peak by the year 2000 ? |
| 13 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 14 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
| 15 | So giving us a total income for the year of about a hundred and twelve thousand pounds . |
| 16 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 17 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah , I 've know that , that 's been on the market for about a year , year and a half now . |
| 19 | And you 'd get a bucket with about a hundred in . |
| 20 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 21 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 22 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 23 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 24 | Though Ruby 's brain weight is only 400 grams , about a third that of a modern human 's , she has proved an apt pupil and now understands and uses a vocabulary of about a thousand words . |
| 25 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 26 | ‘ Three men see a boy for about a second in the dark , in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise . |
| 27 | There was a card club which met once a week in winter , where Green played with a group of about a dozen , including his doctor , Richard Scambler , and James Fleming of Grasmere and the Partridges , Robert and Edward . |
| 28 | The locals are thinly spread but Pembrokeshire Sea Canoeists , a group of about a dozen of around his own age of 31 , meet up for paddles and he is a member of the board lifesaving club at Whitesands . |
| 29 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 30 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |