Example sentences of "[verb] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small village of Kexby lies about five miles due east of York . |
| 2 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 3 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 4 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 5 | my uncle 's gone oh fuck off like this and he started to put his fork in again and we goes , my dad goes well that look distinctly like a three inch mortar shell so I would n't put any more in there if , I would n't put your fucking fork 's in there again if I was you , they had to get the bomb squad out , they diffused it , they found about five fucking mortar bombs |
| 6 | You go there God he only looks about five Mark , do n't he look like Mark though ? |
| 7 | so she always looks about five eight or something . |
| 8 | The economists had a tremendous year erm , really bucking the trend and contributing about five million pounds to er , F T's er , associates profits . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 10 | Some 5,000 troops under Interior Ministry command were deployed and members of the paramilitary Central Security Forces were reported to have ransacked about five villages in night raids , as roadblocks were set up and access to the area restricted . |
| 11 | The book was written about five years after Moggach left Bristol . |
| 12 | no it was five , he said he 'll give about five hundred and |
| 13 | He weighed 196lb and , when wishing to indulge in a man-to-man talk ( I say man-to-man because I became convinced he did n't believe he was a dog at all ) he would rear up and rest his forepaws on my shoulders and look down into my eyes , which are a rather attractive dark brown and reside about five feet two inches above sea level . |
| 14 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |
| 15 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 16 | Once you 've done about five you 'll be alright . |
| 17 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 18 | If that is repeated in we would expect about five hundred thousand pounds to be included in next year 's , that 's the ninety five six , special transitional grant in respect of erm er the independent living fund so that 's quite a significant increase next which will be scheduled for the year after the budget we are now considering . |
| 19 | Spearheaded by the Fabergé Arts Foundation , the relief effort collected about five tons of powdered milk , cereal , dried fruit and dehydrated soup donated by staff members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art , the National Gallery of Art , the Corcoran Gallery of Art , the Hirshhorn Museum , the Walters Art Gallery and the Hillwood Museum . |
| 20 | Well she 's only got two , but she entertains about five others . |
| 21 | But , if I ever have it done again I 'm going to buy those brass things , and , it only costs about five pounds more . |
| 22 | The new boards showed about five points with a route number in small figures at each end ( the only place where route numbers were ever shown on South Metropolitan cars ) . |
| 23 | It was for something that happened about five or six years ago . |
| 24 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 25 | Add about five or six tablespoons of cold water to mix to a soft , but not sticky dough . |
| 26 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
| 27 | A person can spend about five days there , just in the dark . |
| 28 | Going about five t , half four , five o'clock time going to Cambridge first . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've got about five minutes . |
| 30 | I 've got about five just now . |