Example sentences of "[vb infin] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as their size is concerned , the 1966 White Paper envisaged that they would average about 2,000 full-time students each , together with a substantial number of part-time and occasional students . |
| 2 | Hailing the agreement as ‘ important ’ yesterday , the British consumer affairs minister , Mr John Redwood , said it might catch about 12 major mergers involving British companies annually . |
| 3 | Without water we would survive about four days , so in order of priority for life it 's number two after oxygen . |
| 4 | Most conventional radiocarbon laboratories require a sample that will yield about 5 g of carbon . |
| 5 | I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years . |
| 6 | You 'll probably need about two hours . |
| 7 | You will need about 150 yards of fence per acre . |
| 8 | It was felt they 'd need about 15 people from a basic group . |
| 9 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 10 | You will need about ten tripods per acre . |
| 11 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 12 | You had to wait , wait about twenty eight before you went on top I believe I do n't know |
| 13 | Graham shrugged , looked at the red wine in his glass , and said , " I do n't know about following , feels more like I 'm being pursued . " |
| 14 | To quote my rabbi : ‘ Masters and Johnson — what did they know about sex that the rabbis did n't know about two thousand years ago ? ’ |
| 15 | All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth , I do n't know about two front seats . |
| 16 | Thousands yeah exactly from all over the country and they 'll put these together and they 'll say well in do you know about eighty percent of our interviews people are saying yep . |
| 17 | Well they , they , they scroll through themselves , I mean you have no control er they are on three five two is one of the n the numbers and er there , there 's probably be about four to six pages which , you know , go er er er you have to wait , I mean they just go through I do n't know about twenty seconds perhaps each |
| 18 | she 's just an arse , ai n't you , you 're just an arse , I 'll speak to you later right , I do n't know about half past seven , eight o'clock , right here 's Jan . |
| 19 | which will be I do n't know about ten o'clock-ish is that a problem the er a copy of a buyer 's guide in for you Before we move into the role play for cycle , what I have to do is show you erm a training video that is produced by the department , you may have seen it before I do n't know |
| 20 | Julia said oh you do n't look eleven and a half , but er I 'd still like to look about , I do n't know about ten , I suppose oh you do have to do |
| 21 | Do you know , do you know about three hundred and sixty degrees goes all the way round ? |
| 22 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 23 | Well like sometimes I 'll say to him everybody gon na finish about four you know |
| 24 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll inherit about six million dollars each . ’ |
| 26 | I watch I 'll probably watch about half an hour tonight , an hour tomorrow night . |
| 27 | A qualified iridologist can identify about 200 different iris markings , each one of which relates to a different area or organ of the body . |
| 28 | These changes will benefit about 20,000 small firms . |
| 29 | However , some breeding takes place in thermal reactors , so the actual gain is that a fast reactor can generate about sixty times as much electricity as a thermal reactor from each tonne of uranium . |
| 30 | no it was five , he said he 'll give about five hundred and |