Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] about [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total fighting force is some 18,000 , which would probably mean a figure of about 72,000 for the whole migration . |
| 2 | There was , therefore , a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties . |
| 3 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 4 | Family and guests could be heard playing charades and blindman 's buff in the drawing room , and Mr Priddy snuffed out the candles , replacing them with new ones ready for tea at about ten in the evening when the table would again be laden with sweetmeats and delicacies . |
| 5 | After leaving school at around ten o'clock , we arrived at Cliff College at about four-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 6 | This is caused by the corneo-retinal potential — a standing potential across the retina of about one-tenth of a volt . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind then that we have only half the story , we do have some indication of the social origins of about one-fifth of the sample , enough to be regarded as reasonably representative , |
| 8 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 9 | They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre . |
| 10 | She found one little girl of about four under a pile of masonry . |
| 11 | The machine is scalable from eight to over 1,000 processors , in the latter case theoretically doing about 10,000 transactions per second against about 450 for a large conventional mainframe . |
| 12 | In the parishes studied by Wrigley and Schofield , IMR declined from about 160 in the first half to about 130 in the latter half of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Well , we should have knocked off work at about twelve on the Saturday , and instead of that , being a shop , they were taking orders and we had to do all the alterations as they came in , and bought the clothes . |
| 14 | It aims to complement work on the south by this researcher , and so to outline aspects of the growing difference after about 1770 between the high-wage industrial north and the poorly-paid ‘ de-industrialising ’ south . |
| 15 | ASLEF now has a membership of about 20,000 in the railways , and the overwhelming majority of footplate staff are members of it . |
| 16 | The Kuwaiti government said that some 80,000 Palestinians were still resident in Kuwait , out of a population of about 350,000 before the Iraqi invasion . |
| 17 | The State of World Population 1992 report , released on April 29 by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) , projected an annual increase in the world 's population of about 97,000,000 over the next ten years . |
| 18 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 19 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 20 | Decrease the size of the sweet dessert to about three-quarters of the usual amount . |
| 21 | Taylor 's Level was reckoned to require driving of 60 fathoms at an estimated £6 per fathom plus about 140 for the railway . |
| 22 | ‘ Our enquiries suggest that the car entered the water at about three-thirty on the same day . |
| 23 | At a formal ceremony on June 1 the two leaders signed a framework agreement on the major elements of a treaty on strategic arms reductions ( START ) , involving a reduction of each side 's long-range nuclear missiles by about one-third over a seven-year period . |
| 24 | This is because both frontbenches accept that it is the function of the House to permit the two sides to state their cases , and each party in power has respected the right of the Opposition to determine the subjects of debate for about one-third of the total time of the House . |
| 25 | I spent my whole childhood — from the age of about seven until the day I got my record contract — having rows with my parents … specifically my father , because he 's not very musical , to put it mildly . |
| 26 | Ahead of them , a woman of about sixty in a blue tracksuit pawed the ground in the jogger 's equivalent of neutral . |
| 27 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 28 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 29 | The number of children born in a year , for example , reached a peak of about 900,000 in the early 1960s and fell to about 600,000 twenty years later . |
| 30 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |