Example sentences of "this [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like any nerve , the optic nerve is a trunk cable , a bundle of separate " insulated " wires , in this case about three million of them . |
| 2 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 3 | I 've got it on this tape about fifteen times cos everybody supports Arsenal , I said stays in the cup longer . |
| 4 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 5 | watch this till about I normally watch this till about two . |
| 6 | At this moment about 11 people came up to me with two dogs . |
| 7 | Acting Detective Inspector Mark Braithwaite said : ‘ A group of individuals descended on this place about four in the morning . |
| 8 | We reached this place about ten this morning and are at present wind bound but trust we shall be fairly under way for Flinders tomorrow morning . |
| 9 | erm The Department of Trade and Industry stepped into this business about ten years ago and because there was a situation where there was no re-insurance , but when the company that was actually selling the policy when into liquidation erm there was no redress for the policy holder . |
| 10 | People came in this morning about nine o'clock wanting |
| 11 | North set ignore the map I think it is erm very important the map , I saw this outline about ten years ago , erm and , and neither has the fast |
| 12 | Climb up sunshine mountain I first learned this song about three years ago when I was doing a show for some of London 's police at Faringdon 's restaurant in London . |
| 13 | Of this total about 40,000 are migrants from England . |
| 14 | We know that Saint Mark we know that the Gospel writer recorded all this information about thirty years after the death of Jesus . |
| 15 | anybody else as taxpayers should pay five thousand million pounds that 's every family in this country about three hundred pounds a year for lone parents who are not looking af being pa having the parents the father looking |
| 16 | From 1981 to 1986 the total population of Kosovo rose by about 220,000 , and of this increase about 200,000 may have been Albanians . |
| 17 | This time about 120 people turned up , mainly business and professional people , clergy , trade-unionists and political leaders . |
| 18 | After the short hearing , the crowd , by this time about three hundred strong , carried Gerry Fitt and Ivan Cooper shoulder high down Bishop Street , through the Diamond and down Shipquay Street to Guildhall Square , where there was an impromptu meeting . |
| 19 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 20 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |