Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 2 | In making public the findings so far of the Mission on Detainees in Angola and Zambia , Mr Ahtisaari said that the group would keep trying to find about 250 people reported to have been detained or missing . |
| 3 | Now I am trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 4 | I am now trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 5 | When I paused to read the memorial to Jose Rizal , hero of the revolution , I turned round to find about 50 little children in a semicircle watching me open-mouthed . |
| 6 | However , against this must be set an extra local authority expenditure on services of 4.6 million , and a regional multiplier of only between 0.35 and 0.45 , to provide about 5 per cent of regional income . |
| 7 | Norway , Sweden , and Switzerland continue to provide about twenty five to thirty percent . |
| 8 | Moreover , and as a result of growing numbers in the town and in the school , a building programme had been approved to provide about 600 new places : no decision had been taken about how or where they should be deployed . |
| 9 | A major difference between the dictionaries is the number of words defined — learner 's dictionaries tend to contain about 30,000 headwords , general purpose dictionaries ( e.g. CED ) have about 100,000 definitions , Websters Third New International has 450,000 and the Oxford English Dictionary has about 500,000 definitions . |
| 10 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 11 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 12 | The Sainsbury petition was expected to attract about 2,500 signatures . |
| 13 | I had to go to work about nine . |
| 14 | Japan announced that it would abide by the IWC 's decision , although it would continue to catch about 300 minke whales a year for " research purposes " . |
| 15 | It is due on stream in 1995 and is expected to meet about 10 per cent of Pakistan 's total current gas consumption . |
| 16 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 17 | This in turn seems to indicate about three surviving ‘ European ’ players . |
| 18 | Replying to questioners , Mr Hurd disclosed that Hong Kong Indians and others , thought to total about 1,500 families , would also be included in the scheme . |
| 19 | On Oct. 29 the Soviet Union agreed to speed up oil deliveries to Yugoslavia , expected to total about 6,000,000 tonnes in 1990 . |
| 20 | He will need to jump about 120 feet to clear the 20ft high wall , and will also perform stunts in an 85,000-seat stadium watched on TV by an estimated one billion people . |
| 21 | 40 Things you need to know about 1992 |
| 22 | IF YOU COME from Kentucky , you 're supposed to know about three things — chicken , thoroughbreds and Bourbon whiskey , ’ says Bill Samuels , a former rocket fuel scientist turned distiller at Maker 's Mark . |
| 23 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 24 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 25 | To write about 200 words on any one of six topics . |
| 26 | To write about 300 words on any one of six subjects connected with business or current affairs . |
| 27 | A sports career , in the Western world certainly , is reckoned to span about twelve years , terminating sometime after the thirtieth birthday . |
| 28 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 29 | As a general rule , women ought to drink about two thirds of the safe levels for men , mainly because of their lower average body weight . |
| 30 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |