Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] about [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |
| 2 | For a start , the brain of a bee contains only about 300,000 neurones . |
| 3 | Taylor and Urquhart observe that , for the great majority of research materials , use of an item declines rapidly about three years after publication , so that after this period any book has an equally low chance of being used . |
| 4 | As seen in optical section , it has typically about five times the actin content of an ordinary band of cortical actin ( Fig. 4i ) . |
| 5 | This happens only about 13 times in each century , but such transits have now been the subject of detailed astronomical scrutiny for more than two hundred years . |
| 6 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 7 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 8 | A keen sportsman who especially enjoys skiing and used to play hockey and rugby , Mr Essex is involved in the Northern Friends ' Schools triennial performance which draws together about 300 singers from Quaker schools in York , Pontefract and Ayton as well as professional soloists . |
| 9 | This specimen , which weighs only about 10 kilograms , shows a thin , surficial zone altered by heat ( the interior stayed cold ) , which indicates that it passed through the atmosphere as a small body and so undoubtedly made a soft landing on the ice sheet ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 10 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 11 | Malawi , which exports normally about 40,000 tonnes a year , has suffered from a serious drought . |
| 12 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 13 | He brings home about 10 rupees a day after eating his meal in the bazaar and paying for repairs to the rickshaw . |