Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | For external use a moisture content of perhaps 20 per cent may be suitable , for an unheated building about 15 per cent , and for a steam-heated environment about 8 or 10 per cent . |
| 2 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 3 | It was not only the prospect of Tuscany that had captivated Molly , it was the strange provision about three children , females preferred . |
| 4 | The rajão is a five-stringed instrument about 66cm long . |
| 5 | With him sat two of his colleagues ; leathery , beery-voiced , — total weight about 750 lbs . |
| 6 | Taking the present bullion value of gold as 400 dollars , the ducat or florin would be worth in present British money about £30 . |
| 7 | The ‘ nerve centre ’ of the scheme is an old building about five minutes ‘ push ’ away from the Art and Design School in the very centre of the city . |
| 8 | Erm , the only example that I thought of , reading through this was erm , that of intelligence testing , erm , because intelligence testing er was held in high esteem about forty or fifty years ago . |
| 9 | Even today , we are told that it would cost the Inland Revenue about £250 million , because of the reduction in customs barriers . |
| 10 | One company reckons car abuse costs British industry about £50 million a year . |
| 11 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 12 | The synaptic zones are without glial processes , the participating axon branches or dendrites are separated by a synaptic cleft about 20 nm wide , and the presynaptic knob contains mitochondria , glycogen granules and vesicles . |
| 13 | Eighteen to 48 hours after thrombolytic therapy about 85% of vessels are open , with the minority remaining occluded , This patency rate is rather higher than that seen at 90 minutes following similar thrombolytic treatment ( 65–70% ) . |
| 14 | From an initial " rate " of sexual intercourse about five times a week , this had reduced to twice . |
| 15 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 16 | A typical instance of late medieval anxiety about time occurs in a letter of 1399 written by the wife of the ‘ Merchant of Prato ’ , Francesco di Marco Datini , to her ageing husband : ‘ In view of all you have to do , when you waste an hour , it seems to me a thousand … . |
| 17 | Once it reached a designated zone about 500 miles off Land 's End , the ship hove to and special tipping platforms were assembled along one side . |
| 18 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 19 | The conical roof of the summer-house showed above a high hedge about fifty yards down the bank , so forcing himself to act casually , he began to stroll towards it . |
| 20 | However , two of the patients with HBV and HDV showed a distinct clinical hepatitic syndrome about 12 weeks after transplantation . |
| 21 | ‘ Nuts ! ’ she concluded , regarding a photograph of a filthy caver in wet-suit and helmet , wedged in a muddy slit about two inches thinner than he was . |
| 22 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |
| 23 | er , at the back page about nine inch by six wi you , were cut-outs and you cut it out and stuck them together to make a little paper , well , thick paper model . |
| 24 | Photogravure came into commercial use about 1880 . |
| 25 | There continued to be a small sloughy area about 1cm in diameter in the centre of the wound . |
| 26 | The English advertising agencies started getting into a very interesting style about three years ago and then they kind of blew it away , they forgot which started letter-spacing upper and lower case . |
| 27 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
| 28 | The cache was discovered by a workman on the site of an old hospital about 50 yards from Spaniards Road , a main road running across the heath near areas used for car parking by visitors . |
| 29 | Soochow is a famous old city about 50 miles from Shanghai . |
| 30 | Using the Light Rifle about 10′ from a 22″ television set gave a reasonable degree of control over the game . |