Example sentences of "in about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 32 | ( e ) The Burroughs range of medium and large computers comprising the B5000 ( appearing in about 1961 ) , the B5500 , B6500 , and B7500 ( appearing in the late 1960s ) , and the more recent B5700 , B6700 , and B7700 . |
| 33 | Above Pioneer woman passenger Lady Maude Hoare , her husband ( then British Secretary of State for Air ) and son watch a Blackburn ‘ Iris ’ Flying-boat skimming the waves in about 1925 . |
| 34 | Manor Works closed in about 1925 , many of the staff being transferred to other A.P.C.M. factories . |
| 35 | The Minoans may have learnt the art of making faience , a glaze technique , from the Egyptians in about 2000 BC . |
| 36 | The course writer attempts to cover the experience of the native speaker in about 2000 hours of learning . |
| 37 | In about five years , if things go well , Biohybrid pancreases could become widely available . |
| 38 | By the Fifties his ranch model homes , built in about five varieties of finish and colour scheme , were selling for $9,000 . |
| 39 | It may be that this will gradually work through and become apparent in the activists in about five years . |
| 40 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 41 | This occurs in about five per cent of cases of gonorrhoea for either site . |
| 42 | Once you are in the habit of reviewing it can be done , alone or with others who participated in the experience , in about five minutes fiat . |
| 43 | By 4.30 somebody says , ‘ They 're going to wrap in about five minutes and have a big spread over at the sound stage . ’ |
| 44 | In about five minutes — all right ? ’ |
| 45 | After 24 hours , fill cavities with a two-part repair material , mixing only as much as you can use in about five minutes ( less in hot weather ) |
| 46 | He still visits Ipswich Hospital each week for dressing changes and expects to be back at work in about five weeks . |
| 47 | This device should give us a single analysis in about five minutes rather than ninety as at present as we do n't need to separate the mixtures , we can do the analysis directly . |
| 48 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 49 | But we 'll be coming onto that in about five minutes . |
| 50 | No father ( of a case or a control child ) in this study had a recorded cumulative external exposure t penetrating radiation above 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and such low doses could accumulate from background radiation in about five years . |
| 51 | You can move from the beginning of a disc to the end in about five seconds . |
| 52 | okay , and then see me in about five weeks , |
| 53 | And if I can see , if you say you 've had the blood test done in around , I du n no , two weeks , at your convenience and then if you see me in about five , which will be at the end of those , which |
| 54 | I had a meeting of all the dentists in about five weeks ago . |
| 55 | A heavy rain , we were soaked in about five minutes , soaked to the skin . |
| 56 | that 's no big deal , but she 'd found that out in about five minutes ! |
| 57 | Rolled in about five minutes ago demanding to see you . |
| 58 | If she 's not in in about five minutes then we 'll go outside anyway , alright ? |
| 59 | I 'm quite capable of forgetting in about five minutes . |
| 60 | And three crossings in about five hundred metres . |