Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 2 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 3 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 4 | Basically it 's very easy , is n't it , to get down to about seventy-seven degrees above absolute zero ? |
| 5 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |