Example sentences of "[prep] about a [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With about a third of a cup of milk , you mix it up with some sugar and then you put boiling water in . |
| 2 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |
| 3 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 4 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 5 | A much more satisfactory method is to reduce the bushy foliage by about a third with a sharp knife or a pair of scissors . |