Example sentences of "about seven " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about seven months of age the average baby is quite skilled at removing obstacles to prehension ; is well able , for example , to pull a cushion away to reach a rattle behind it . |
| 2 | Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age . |
| 3 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |
| 4 | A crowd of about seven or eight youths on their way out of a Chinese carryout were in high spirits . |
| 5 | Someone mentioned the 51st Highland Division and the part of the Front they were dug in , which appeared to be fairly close to our area , probably about seven or eight miles from here . |
| 6 | The fit and competent should cross the 360 kilometres in about seven days . |
| 7 | He was a boy of about seven , big for his age , aggressive looking and with food adhering to his face in greasy red and brown streaks . |
| 8 | ‘ Only about seven o'clock . ’ |
| 9 | The Government had predicted that rateable values would rise by about seven times , but the revaluation has produced an eightfold increase . |
| 10 | This was true once , but is now out of date — about seven years out of date , in fact . |
| 11 | ‘ Right — I 'll come for you about seven . ’ |
| 12 | We were both about seven years old , and she had not yet developed the ability to pronounce the sounds ‘ ck ’ and ‘ th ’ . |
| 13 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 14 | About seven years old , I think . ’ |
| 15 | It was early evening , about seven o'clock ; I was wearing a short skirt and no coat , because the weather was warm , and we were supposed to be going out . |
| 16 | If they have similar voices the effect can be dazzling unless : ( a ) The number of lines is restricted to about seven in each direction . |
| 17 | ‘ I went to the hospitality lounge for a cup of tea at about seven , and found Masha there before me . ’ |
| 18 | Grazing should be prohibited in the newly-cut coupe for about seven years to allow the establishment of new seedlings . |
| 19 | Spreadbury , who had an otherwise impressive debut , had no explanation , though the ankle-deep water — 78 millimetres of rain fell on the pitch in about seven hours — must have been a distraction . |
| 20 | From the age of about seven or eight , children , particularly girls , tend to form inseparable friendships . |
| 21 | British pigs produce about seven million gallons of liquid muck a day , posing a big disposal problem for farmers and a water quality headache . |
| 22 | The Los Alamos is in a quiet side street about ten minutes from the action and about seven minutes from the beach , and is perfect for those who want the best of the action , along with the occasional quiet spell . |
| 23 | Walking into the dining room he saw a huge man about seven or eight feet tall standing behind the desk at the other end of the room . |
| 24 | The Loipe is a small , family run hotel in a quiet position about seven minutes walk from the centre of Seefeld . |
| 25 | The village centre is about seven minutes walk away . |
| 26 | Yeah , about seven hundred birds . |
| 27 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 28 | In fact , the family moved to Johannesburg in 1935 , when John was about seven or eight . |
| 29 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 30 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |