Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 2 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 3 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 4 | er well grips are a little bit more than that , there all free lance but on the approximate daily rate in this country about a hundred and forty five a day yeah , yeah , there open to negotiation because they 're free lance sure ok lovely , thank you very much , thanks , goodbye . |
| 5 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 6 | Eventually , he found it , lying down on the Kālādika — an open , grassy plateau about a quarter of a mile outside the village — the nearest place where the cattle were taken to graze . |
| 7 | ‘ One person , ’ he said , looking up , ‘ bought both poisons in that jar about a week ago , as well as a rare odourless potion which can stop the heart but not be traced . ’ |
| 8 | The only problem of that nature that we have to worry about is an electrical storm about a thousand kilometres wide . ’ |
| 9 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 10 | At first the prisoners had only a very small piece of wired in exercise ground at the back of the orphanage , but later , on humanitarian grounds , the Italian Colonel was forced to relent and extend it by wiring in an extra expanse of rough ground about a hundred metres square . |
| 11 | They say that when the decision was made to transfer the spinal unit at Harlow Wood to Nottingham 's Queens Medical Centre about a third of the hospital 's work was removed and no new contracts were negotiated to fill the gap . |
| 12 | Er modern logistics floor space will at the very least yield about a thousand jobs sorry a hundred jobs per thousand square feet . |
| 13 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 14 | For whose efforts on behalf of the fund I I really do thank them and I 'd like to make a special thanks to Lady Chandler , Lucy stepped into the breach as acting chair about a year ago and since I was elected has done a tremendous amount to help me settle in quickly and I hope effectively . |
| 15 | He carried notes about with him in his wallet , on one occasion , at any rate about a hundred pounds . |
| 16 | Dreadnought held on to third place about a second or so behind Strega and Rare Bear . |