Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a boat-train that goes at about half-nine , I think . ’ |
| 2 | Examples include odour and taste discrimination , with important effects on the evolution of language and cuisine ; preference from infancy onward for certain basic geometric designs over others ; phoneme formation ; rules of transformational grammar ; the development of particular , species-wide facial expressions to denote the emotions of fear , loathing , anger , surprise , and happiness ; various other forms of nonverbal communication ; the pattern of mother-infant bonding ; the method of infant holding by women ; fear of strangers ( a usually strong response that persists from about six to eighteen months ) ; phobias ; and others ( see the review by Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 4 | Produces an immediate high that lasts for about ten minutes followed by a deep low and often instant addiction |
| 5 | Thijs et al have postulated that pregnancy exerts an effect that disappears after about five years . |
| 6 | Between them , on a stretch of featureless coastline that runs for about forty miles , is a score of small , isolated settlements . |