Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at one stage prospecting starting in a locality about ten miles distant from the main area and there was , I think ( my figures may not be exactly right but they 're near enough right ) 276 landowners in the locality and 274 of them signed a petition to the prospecting companies to stay off their land . |
| 2 | GEOFF : ‘ I was in a bar about six months ago , and had an off-the-shoulder top on . |
| 3 | The facts as related by the Rose-Noelle 's crew are that the 41-foot trimaran left Picton , on New Zealand 's South Island , for Tonga on 1 June and capsized in a storm about 125 miles off the North Island on 4 June . |
| 4 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 5 | But if the Milettis had scored a point with their choice of driver , Zen felt that he got one back when Ivy named their destination : the bar , identified by Lucaroni , where Ubaldo Valesio had gone to receive the phone calls from the gang , situated in a village about ten kilometres from Perugia . |
| 6 | Disturbances began on May 16 in a village about 250 km from Kaduna , the state capital , after a land dispute between the minority Christian Katafs and the mainly Moslem Hausa people . |
| 7 | THE greeting cards , gift wrap and stationery people T&A Thompson Cards have come a long way since it all began for them in a garage about 15 years ago — they have just opened a superb new outlet in the Ravenhill Business Park . |
| 8 | On the night he died , he was in a speedboat about 10 miles South of the Spanish Enclave , Ceuto and into Morroccan waters . |
| 9 | The calves , when only a few days old , are tethered by the neck in a stall about 60 cms wide and 150 cms long , until they are too large to turn . |
| 10 | Guillain Barré syndrome was first defined in 1916 by Guillain , Barré and Strohl in a report about two soldiers who developed paralysis within two weeks of each other . |