Example sentences of "over about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll come over about six . |
| 2 | The Colombian government agreed in October 1989 to hand over about 30,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest to indigenous Indian tribes in addition to the approximately 60,000 sq km transferred in previous years . |
| 3 | These each turn over about 900 gph . |
| 4 | Since the exposure extends over about 1800 flashes of the stroboscope , the clarity of the picture demonstrates the extreme regularity of the pattern in its initial stages . |
| 5 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 6 | A minor modification to the program achieved this and , in addition to the average of chosen order , the program now delivers a measurement averaged over about an hour , and one averaged over about eight hours . |
| 7 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 8 | you know , over about five |
| 9 | yeah they were coming in there and we nearly got knock got knocked over about five times actually there was another student car park at the back as well |
| 10 | I I anticipate that the concert should be over about nine thirty , although I hope no if we finish nine thirty five no one 's going |
| 11 | It has to be said that the current U D P of Leeds makes er an a an allowance of migration of net out migration of just over about nine thousand three hundred per five year period . |
| 12 | Counts have also been made over about 18 square kilometres of chalk farmland north of Worthing , where a density of 22 pairs per 2,500 acres ( 10 sq . |
| 13 | For short words , the number of candidate strings produced can number in the hundreds , usually number in the thousands for longer words , and can reach millions for words over about twelve letters long . |
| 14 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 15 | We actually bought them over about seven or eight years ago . |
| 16 | The systems way of thinking was adopted successively by biogeography , soil geography , climatology and geomorphology and this adoption extended over about 35 years from 1935 to 1971 when Physical Geography : A systems approach ( Chorley and Kennedy , 1971 ) was first published . |
| 17 | Try a sample first over about 150 needles . |
| 18 | The tendency has been heightened and intensified by the advent of techniques derived from pop videos — a language with which agency creative people are very familiar , but which can be opaque to anyone over about 25 — and sophisticated computer graphics . |
| 19 | This delivers , through the unmodified hardware configuration , motion video at between 12.5 and 15 frames per second over about 25 per cent of the screen . |
| 20 | The product life of these systems was short , with sales peaking over about 3 years , and product improvements were being introduced continuously . |
| 21 | Similarly , a priori one would expect the same effect in TV , possibly over about 30 seconds . |
| 22 | Bromley ( 1981 ) has shown how abundant biogenic and inorganic sedimentary textures can be revealed by lightly brushing thin mineral oil on a dry chalk surface and allowing it to ‘ develop ’ over about 30 minutes . |
| 23 | Mr Glennie , who designed the trimaran , said it had turned over about 700 nautical miles east of the International Date Line during a gale . |
| 24 | Choose two different weaving yarns and lay each of these over about half the needles . |
| 25 | I used to go into the rolling mills and watch them rolling steel sheets and over about half an hour there , this was Saturday after Saturday after Saturday I used to do this . |
| 26 | After they 'd looked over about ten children , the doctor yawned and said , ‘ I do n't see any problems here . |
| 27 | I think in terms of schools it only really applies to special schools , I think once y even in some of the small independents , once you get over about forty or fifty , then you 're gon na have enough contacts |
| 28 | At the time of its creation the NHS took over about 1700 public hospitals and about 1000 voluntary hospitals , a large proportion of which were facing bankruptcy . |
| 29 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 30 | The company only turned over about three million pounds last year , and made profits of just over a hundred thousand . |