Example sentences of "[adv] about [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it can take apparently about two and a half hours to get into Nottingham from erm some of those areas . |
| 2 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 3 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 4 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 5 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 6 | she was only about two and a half there |
| 7 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 8 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 9 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 10 | And indeed there are some who make think that the County Council has been too generous in that the reduction from the hundred percent migration in four districts , er amounts only to somewhere about four and a half er thousand dwellings . |
| 11 | Well he 'd got a , the little marker , th well about two and a half feet marker . |
| 12 | Er , it 's seven fifty per head coach from Harlow at nine in the morning get back again about five , we intend to beat the rush hour and it 's a conducted tour of Docklands and the city airport with a guide , and also viewing of the visitor 's centre at Docklands , and then about two and a half hours , probably three , to roam around the area yourself . |