Example sentences of "[vb past] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 2 | And then after that erm I did er an eight day trek erm which was in the Anapurna region of the Himalayas and that again was sleeping in tents and we had sherpas , porters , to carry all our luggage apart from things like water that we carried in our day sacks and they carried four bags each on their backs and my bag weighed about thirty pounds . |
| 3 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 4 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each weighed about 54 grains of gold . |
| 7 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 8 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 9 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Returning in 1979 to search ice patches near the Belgica as well as the Yamato Mountains , they found about 3000 more specimens ! |
| 12 | Then , between two pages , she found about thirty polaroids loose . |
| 13 | A JEWISH group that helped about 80 Bosnian mostly Muslim refugees fly to Israel yesterday says the Palestine Liberation Organisation made a last-minute bid to prevent the flight because it did not want Israel to look good . |
| 14 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 15 | The meeting , held in Leyburn Methodist church hall and organised by the Wensleydale Rail Association , Wensleydale Environmental Supporters Group and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , drew about 100 people from villages and towns from Hawes to Yarm . |
| 16 | Wages rose about 9 per cent , although inflationary pressure meant that average settlements would probably rise to 12 per cent in 1991 . |
| 17 | In 1991 , productivity rose about 3 per cent , which compared favourably with total Scottish manufacturing productivity , down more than 1 per cent . |
| 18 | They did n't fetch ten ye they used about fifty , or sixty , or seventy yearlings from Doncaster all in one special . |
| 19 | Mustafa got Arab engineers up from Tel Aviv to build it and it cost about 700 Palestinian pounds . |
| 20 | I started at the Grosvenor and visited about thirty-five before I stopped . ’ |
| 21 | We can date the ‘ oxygen revolution ’ — the time when oxygen became an important gas in the Earth 's atmosphere — fairly precisely : it occurred about 410 million years ago . |
| 22 | The two cases that have been mentioned occurred about ten years afterwards , and these may have been removed against their will . |
| 23 | One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to " explain " why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago — it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve . |
| 24 | One of the most frightening times in my life occurred about three years ago during the October break . |
| 25 | There were major advances some 60 000 and 40 000 years ago , but the greatest expanse of ice during this cycle occurred about 20 000 years ago ( Goldthwait et al . , |
| 26 | The first distinct accretion , according to the USGS team , occurred about 150 million years ago when the collisions added the western flanks of the Sierra and the Klamath mountains to the northeast . |
| 27 | The crash occurred about 60 km from Tripoli , near Souk al-Sabt . |
| 28 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 29 | Many other inmates were injured during the fighting , which involved about 200 people . |
| 30 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |