Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books : Blue Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg ( Black/Norton , £11.95 ) , good for historical sights ; Brugge Inside Out available locally for about £4 is useful for more down-to-earth matters . |
| 2 | Scuba diving is available locally for about £20 per day , and we 're told there are many interesting wrecks to dive to if you 're experienced . |
| 3 | Matthews estimates that a truck-mounted unit would require a 350 kW accelerator operating at 10 MV. At present , commercial machines only reach 40kW , but the Star Wars equipment could be built commercially for about $3.5m . |
| 4 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 5 | There was nothing dramatic to mark its going — just a stream of air bubbles that became gradually smaller and ceased altogether after about twenty seconds . |
| 6 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 7 | Now of course there are other er forms of erm er o o of fuel er there 's coal erm and we have large stocks of coal in this country er enough for about two hundred er years er again you ask the question well why therefore is the , is the government coal cl cl closing down er a large part of the coal industry ? |
| 8 | One kilogram contents are enough for about thr thirty metres square |
| 9 | These plants are undoubtedly growing in the harshest terrestrial conditions on our planet and can metabolise only for about 300 hours a year . |
| 10 | The effect , however , lasts only for about twenty-four hours , for tannin manufacture ( say the botanists ) consumes a considerable amount of plant energy and resources . |
| 11 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
| 12 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 13 | If my deductions are correct , Fishbane has been in charge of buying only for about three years , because for the previous three the magazines being ordered were very rum indeed . |
| 14 | He 's been like this only for about thirty seconds . |
| 15 | REPORTS that the Government plans to save about 13 of the 31 coal mines threatened with closure — but only for about two years — were dismissed as speculation by Downing Street last night . |
| 16 | Saves leaving them in the car , probably only for about two hours , I do n't know if it 's better leaving at home or taking with me , there 's . |
| 17 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 18 | Cook gently for about 5 minutes until the sauce thickens slightly . |
| 19 | Bring to the boil , then lower the heat and simmer gently for about 1½ hours . |
| 20 | Bring to the boil and leave to simmer gently for about 10min . |
| 21 | Then simmer gently for about 30 to 45 minutes . |
| 22 | Melt the butter in a saucepan , add the nettles and stew gently for about 10 minutes . |
| 23 | Cover the pan and simmer very gently for about 20 minutes . |
| 24 | After washing , squeeze water out with a towel and leave to dry naturally for about 15 minutes . |
| 25 | It concerned a young woman , Ann Fook , who had allegedly not passed any urine naturally for about 26 weeks , ‘ during which time it was vomited up ’ . |
| 26 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 27 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 28 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 29 | By the year 2000 coal and nuclear will be the two leading fuels for electricity generation , accounting together for about 65% of the total . |
| 30 | About 20 trainees may be brought together for about ten days spread over a few months , interspersed with more in-bureau case study exercises and observation . |