Example sentences of "[noun sg] of about [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Wrightson and David Levine were able to trace the ownership of about half the freehold and a quarter of the copyhold properties during the course of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | In a folder test , a selection of about half a dozen advertisements , including the ad to be tested , is put in a file folder . |
| 3 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 4 | I them place gummed strips onto each side with an overlap of about half an inch , which I press firmly until almost dry . |
| 5 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 6 | The English laid siege to Vannes , Rennes and Nantes , but the English troops were greatly outnumbered by French forces in the duchy , and in January 1343 Edward agreed to the truce of Malestroit , which stabilized the position and left John de Montfort in control of about half the duchy . |
| 7 | With the Atlantic Ocean floor spreading away in opposite directions from the ridge , Iceland is getting wider at a rate of about half a centimetre per year , so a lot of new material has to be added continuously in the zone of tension in the middle , or else the two halves would soon be completely separated . |
| 8 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 9 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 10 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 11 | Turn the rectangle upside down and carve out a hollow from the centre , leaving a frame of at least 1cm ( ½inch ) and a depth of about half the cake . |
| 12 | One of the sideshows had a two-inch thick scaffold board into the top of which five-inch nails had been driven to a depth of about half an inch . |
| 13 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 14 | Single ulcers develop in the proximal duodenum of about half the animals . |
| 15 | She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels . |