Example sentences of "about [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a big man , about fifty-five years old , with brown eyes and a nice smile . |
| 2 | A similar point was made by the eminent US naturalist Stephen Jay Gould in his introduction to Bjørn Kurtén 's fascinating novel Dance of the Tiger ( 1980 ) , whose focus is the hypothetical extermination of Neanderthals by Cro-Magnons , about 35,000 years ago . |
| 3 | On 19 October 1550 he was granted letters of denization and he is listed thereafter in various City parishes , the last being St Bride 's in the ward of Faringdon Without , where he was described in 1571 as ‘ Haunce , pictorer , a denizen , borne in Anwarpe , came into the realm about xxviii yeres past , Douch ’ . |
| 4 | In the Less Favoured Area ( which includes all the Welsh uplands ) , the average size of sheep farm is about 262 hectares and the average mixed cattle and sheep farm about 138 hectares . |
| 5 | THE furniture group , MFI , is to cut about 259 jobs with the closure of its home-delivery distribution centre at Runcorn , Cheshire , in May , workers were told yesterday . |
| 6 | The female barn owl is usually taller than the male , about 14½ inches to his 13 , and also usually darker . |
| 7 | About 4700 drawings will be changed and 170 modifications made . |
| 8 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 9 | We recall the occasion of a large conference of about 3000 delegates , when the General Hon. |
| 10 | My diesel shortly is a terrible smoker , I have only had this vehicle for three months ( 1985 vintage ) but have covered about 3000 miles and tried all of the adjustments to reduce its habit , The clock reads 30,000 miles and the distributor pump is adjusted to its maximum in an attempt to reduce the smoke , but I can not stop it . |
| 11 | It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years . |
| 12 | Thus dingoes , taken into Australia by Aboriginal people , probably about 3000 years ago , out-competed the thylacine ( marsupial ‘ wolf ’ ) . |
| 13 | Some 10 000 years later , a rising Atlantic began to press the mouth of the Susquehanna back toward its source , forming an estuary — a partially enclosed bay where fresh and salt water mix — which took its present form about 3000 years ago . |
| 14 | So each skull represents about 27,777 corpses . |
| 15 | This figure ( about 18,830 tons ) does not include ore mined above the ever lengthening Deep Adit Level , or the numerous other adits such as Fleming 's , Taylor 's , Grey Crag , Middle , Top , Gaunt 's , or Kernal — the last five being at Paddies ' End . |
| 16 | About fifty conclusions dashed through my head , all of them disastrous . |
| 17 | ( By way of illustration , in the mid-1980s the catalogue of IBM 's mainframe-computer manuals occupied about three hundred pages with about fifty titles per page . ) |
| 18 | All air travel to Iceland is through Keflavik airport , about fifty kilometres from Reykjavik , a beautiful modern terminal , and one of very few where duty free is available on arrival . |
| 19 | You 're joking , there 's about fifty countries in Africa are n't there ! |
| 20 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |
| 21 | Rizzio was dragged into a neighbouring closet — now a feature of every visitor 's tour through the palace — and stabbed about fifty times . |
| 22 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 23 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 24 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll need a … crowbar or something , about fifty metres of rope and a torch . |
| 26 | About fifty metres from the car she discovered a passageway which sliced between the terraces . |
| 27 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 28 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 29 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 30 | The well was very deep , about fifty metres down and it took Jennifer ten minutes to complete the task of lowering and raising the bucket . |