Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 2 | He stayed in the flat until Lucy was about two months old then he left again . |
| 3 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 4 | JANE is about six foot two and built to match . |
| 5 | The highest hill in Denmark is about 12 feet tall , which is a bit of a downer for budding climbers . |
| 6 | The area of the city which was dug by Wheeler was about nine times as large and his report , if published today , would , on the basis of Frere 's , have included over 11,000 vessels , instead of the 183 which appeared . |
| 7 | The breadth of some of these banks is so great that they can not be attributed to marine erosion at low sea levels corresponding with glacial periods : the Nazareth bank near the Maldive Islands is about 350 km ( 220 miles ) long and reaches a maximum breadth of about 100 km ( 60 miles ) and lies almost uniformly at a depth of about 60 m ( 200 ft ) . |
| 8 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 9 | The resting potential of a giant axon of Periplaneta is about 80 mV ; when the neuronal membrane is. depolarized temporarily ( mainly through an increase in its permeability to sodium ions ) an action potential of 85–100 mV , lasting about 1 ms , is produced . |
| 10 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 11 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 12 | Separated from its neighbours and set in its own small garden , shared only by the owner who occupies another villa , Villa Sylvia is about 20 minutes walk from the sea and the resort 's centre . |
| 13 | Willi was about four inches shorter than she was and tended to take bouncy steps . |
| 14 | He said the Rover was about thirty years old ( 'and that 's a damn sight younger than I am' ) and that it did only sixteen miles to the gallon . |
| 15 | ‘ You do appreciate , ’ she was saying , ‘ that all our material on Eismark is about thirty years out of date ? |
| 16 | Untill the 1950s , average life expectancy in Greenland was about 35 years . |
| 17 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 18 | When the engines stopped , the Forfarshire was about five kilometres east of St Abbs Head , in Scotland . |
| 19 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 20 | The nearest sandy beach is only about a ten minute walk from the Venus and the West End of San Antonio is about 15 minutes away . |
| 21 | Okay just before we go off Peter 's erm the first comment you made Peter was about ten K Gs of |
| 22 | But then when Sean was about fourteen months I could n't take any more and I 'd just do it my way , and I 'm glad I did . |
| 23 | In these conditions , the doubling time of Raji was about 17 hrs , whereas RJ2.2.5 doubled every 48 hrs . |
| 24 | His last appearance in Darlington was about three years ago , and since then this quintet has been formed with Jez Hall on tenor sax , Nikki Iles on piano , Gary Culshaw electric bass and Tony Faulkner drums . |
| 25 | Battery life on the Lynx is about four hours with six AA batteries , but a mains adapter is included in the package ( the GameBoy adapter is extra ) . |
| 26 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 27 | A neighbour said : ‘ Suzannah is about six foot tall and very attractive . |
| 28 | ‘ Nick 's about seven years younger than me but he has tremendous talent . |
| 29 | At the extremes , per capita income in Slovenia is about five times as large in real terms as per capita income in Kosovo . |
| 30 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |