Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the puddings make about sixty pounds . |
| 2 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 3 | The first was that the lads were n't allowed to move freely within the prison ; another was the size of the cells , in which the lads spend about 11 hours each day . |
| 4 | The cars stopped about twenty yards from the front of the cottage . |
| 5 | Today 's weather was bright and sunny and most of the cars went about 20 seconds faster . |
| 6 | The compounds include about 1500 pesticide chemicals , 4000 drugs , 38 000 potentially toxic substances and 50 000 commercial or potentially useful chemicals . |
| 7 | They agree , however , on four points : the pleasantries lasted about thirty seconds ; there was a terrible row ; one of them stormed out ; and the word ‘ cock ’ was used . |
| 8 | The CDs average about 55 minutes and could easily have permitted inclusion of all the Tangos recorded by Domingo or all the selections from Wunderlich 's Heliodor Viennese Song recital . |
| 9 | The high ground of Harris and Uig receive proportionally more orographic rainfall , with the summits receiving about 1000 mm more rain per year than adjacent western coasts . |
| 10 | Two of the Julies bred about six weeks ago and around ten fry have been saved , the largest being 15mm in length . |
| 11 | Up unto er I think the flats came about nineteen sixty seven I think . |
| 12 | The figures include about 700 Vietnamese refugees . |
| 13 | During the 1960s the cores lost about 2.5 million people from net out-migration . |
| 14 | The controversy centres on the assumptions made about two of the terms , V and Q : whether and how they are affected by changes in the money supply ( M ) . |
| 15 | A single charging of the batteries allows about 2.5 hours of continuous use . |
| 16 | Very few early umbrellas survive but the Museums have about three dateable to the first half of the 19th century . |
| 17 | The cliffs lie about 100 metres upstream . |
| 18 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 19 | The men earn about half a crown per day in summer , and two shillings in winter ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ They were pissed , ’ says Polson , ‘ and they were still here when the police arrived about five or ten minutes later . |
| 21 | The chairs take about 28 hours each ( when producing a batch ) and the table about 120 hours . |
| 22 | The grounds total about 55 acres with gardens , pasture and woodland rolling down the steep slopes to meet the waters of the River Fowey and Woodgate Pill . |