Example sentences of "about [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 2 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 3 | They want it about eleven but I said , can you get down to get it ? |
| 4 | The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset . |
| 5 | He 's lost the use of his legs and does n't get about much but Uncle went to see him two or three times a week . ’ |
| 6 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 7 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 8 | The 17-strong group , whose ages start at about 18 but are well-balanced on the 40-plus side , have been tapping the boards at Anstey Junior School on Tuesdays since September . |
| 9 | The Unionist vote remained stable at about 27,000 but the SDLP/Republican Clubs vote fell from 25,500 to just under 23,000 . |
| 10 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 11 | The engine operated until about 1848 but proved to be too heavy for the line and was never entirely successful . |
| 12 | The telephones kept me just about busy but the potential for job satisfaction in the tasks I was required to do was almost nil . |
| 13 | In Rumania , the Cathedral of Alba Iulia ( Gyulafehérvar ) was completed about 1239 but reconstruction was necessary after the Tartar invasion of 1242 ( 348 and 349 ) . |
| 14 | With them was always Maria , a mongol girl who was about nine but looked older because of her stout figure , short , thick neck and large head . |
| 15 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 16 | Edingley are sending about four and are sending about four but er as many as like want to go . |
| 17 | , Henry William ( 1772 ? –1842 ) , civil servant , was born about 1772 but his origins , and much of his career , are shrouded in mystery . |
| 18 | Comrade Chang is a younger teacher ( working at the Foreign Trade Institute ) who looks about 24 but is in fact over 30 . |