Example sentences of "of about [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 2 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 3 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 4 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 5 | It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way . |
| 6 | The child , a boy of about two and a half , was unconscious and bleeding from a gash on his head . |
| 7 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 8 | ‘ We have a seating capacity of about 250 and the original intention was nearer 750 , ’ said Mr Cave . |
| 9 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 10 | Fama and Babiak tested this model and found that , on average , firms in the USA have a target ratio of about 0.5 and an adjustment rate of 0.33 . |
| 11 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 12 | It is a combination of two old structures , one of about 1130–50 and the other rather older . |
| 13 | We saw a ‘ pairing-up ’ ceremony , between two young people : a Japanese girl of about 15 and a boy who was slightly younger . |