Example sentences of "[vb -s] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 2 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 3 | On most sails this imaginary point lies about 18 to 22 inches ( 46–56cm ) from the front of the boom and can be found by standing the rig on the beach in a steady wind . |
| 4 | However , before that , in two days ’ time , on the Feast of St Leo the Great , you will meet Irvine , My Lord Cardinal 's spy , at Coldstream Priory which lies about thirty miles from here . |
| 5 | The small village of Kexby lies about five miles due east of York . |
| 6 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 7 | Puerto de la Luz y Las Palmas , to give it its correct name , lies about two miles due south and is protected by a massive breakwater . |
| 8 | The village of Sancton lies about eight miles west of Beverley on the Market Weighton to Brough road . |
| 9 | But the busiest GA airfield in this area lies about fifteen flying minutes north of the city , at Paraparaumu aerodrome on the Kapiti coast . |
| 10 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Seoul said the 12 Chinese arrived on Tuesday on Cheju Island , which lies about 60 miles off Korea 's south-west coast . |
| 11 | Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen . |
| 12 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 13 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 14 | The ancient village of Sutton in Holderness lies about three miles from the city of Kingston upon Hull . |
| 15 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 16 | Measuring 51 cm ( 20 in ) in diameter , the table is made from 12 mm ( ½″ ) chipboard and stands about 61 cm ( 24 ″ ) high . |
| 17 | This church stands about three miles from Ravenna at Classe ( Classis ) which was the port for the city in the days of Imperial Rome . |
| 18 | The Arctic Ocean , including the Barents , Kara , Laptev , East Siberian , Chukchi and Beaufort seas , covers about 14 million km 2 , almost two-thirds of the Arctic region as a whole ( CIA , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | This section covers about 13 miles . |
| 20 | The King 's palace covers about eleven square kilometres : the main rooms are eighty metres high . |
| 21 | In the absence of CRP , wild-type RNA polymerase covers about 70 bp , protecting the upper strand against DNAaseI cleavage from positions -49.5 to positions +19.5 ( Fig. 2a , lane 3 ) and the lower strand from positions -54.5 to positions +16.5 ( Fig. 2b , lane 3 ) . |
| 22 | It covers about two thousand years of history , but most the miracles are clustered round a few persons and events : |
| 23 | The weights are determined from the results of the annual Family Expenditure Survey which covers about 7,000 households selected from all parts of the UK : each member of the household over sixteen years of age is asked to provide information on his or her spending behaviour over a period of a fortnight and also to describe any longer-term expenditures . |
| 24 | This covers about 90 charities . |
| 25 | Drawn up by the Advertising Association , the new code covers about 90 per cent of the companies that use direct mail . |
| 26 | That covers about half of the erm of the county . |
| 27 | Iran is much larger than any country of Western Europe ; its territory today covers about 636,000 square miles , about the same area as Soviet Union , Turkey , Iraq , Pakistan and Afghanistan . |
| 28 | The TLS covers about 50 books a week , from most fields except science and technology . |
| 29 | It covers about 3630 acres , traversed by the River Holbeck and drained by several small tributaries , mainly Fitlock Brook . |
| 30 | It probably covers about three hundred acres , and that serves world demand for , for one , for one car . |