Example sentences of "about twelve and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministerial reassurances that the selective scheme would only encompass between about twelve and twenty authorities , and that the general scheme was a reserve power which ministers hoped never to use , served — although not written into the Bill — further to limit politically the scope of the measure . |
| 2 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 3 | And I think our wages were about twelve and six a week and then it went to fifteen shillings a week . |
| 4 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 5 | The theorist is quite in line really with the reflector the average there is about twelve and a half . |
| 6 | Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions . |
| 7 | when I was about twelve and I remember bashing into a nanny with a pram . |