Example sentences of "of about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 2 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 3 | The radar has a range of about 55 km and provides information such as movements of tanks and artillery . |
| 4 | Beyond the age of about 55 , to an increasing degree in older people , it is found that previous premarital experience of sex decreases , especially among women . |
| 5 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 6 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 7 | Standing at the bar on this rainy Friday night in Warsaw is a tall , thin , dark-haired and rather pretty woman of about thirty , who catches my glance as Leszek Kurowski and I enter and , with a darting , fitful gesture , invites me to approach . |
| 8 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 9 | My third or fourth customer was a man of about thirty , with the athletic , boyish , curly-haired handsomeness of David Gower , the cricketer , or Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead of Lulu . |
| 10 | I was greeted by a very attractive woman of about thirty . |
| 11 | But the shape , who was now revealed to be an amiable-looking man of about thirty , remained silent . |
| 12 | This consisted of about thirty full-time civil servants , mainly drawn from the Department of the Environment but with secondees from the Departments of Industry and Employment . |
| 13 | We sat in desks for two , in classes of about thirty , and we spent most of the day in those rows of desks . |
| 14 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got a book of about thirty ! |
| 16 | You advertise it in libraries , schools and local newspapers and find yourself reading to an audience of about thirty five . |
| 17 | Communication of data via computerised and electronic means is a relatively new mode of communications but one which in the space of about thirty years has revolutionised the way in which we use , store and transmit information and data . |
| 18 | I I think it 's important , especially for for young women up to the age of about thirty five when your peak bone density is probably attained and after that you , you do go downhill , to maximise the calcium intake . |
| 19 | Her companions were a married couple , a young man of about thirty , and an elderly , forthright , General 's widow , a Mrs Beeley . |
| 20 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 21 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 22 | We then escorted this group of about thirty souls into a low warehouse littered with primitive sewing machines and spindles and bolts of cloth . |
| 23 | The SOCO was a woman of about thirty . |
| 24 | She was a thin , long-waisted girl of about thirty , with a bony , intelligent face and a cap of dark curling hair which had been layered by an obvious expert , and no doubt expensive , hand to lie in swathes across the forehead and to curl into the nape of her high-arched neck . |
| 25 | Only three of the manuscript diaries now survive ( out of an original total of about thirty ) , and these have been published in their entirety , two by the National Library of Wales ( 1982 and 1989 ) and one by Alison Hodge ( 1989 ) . |
| 26 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 27 | She had a very strong hull for her type , was capable of about thirty knots with her twin Sabre engines , and I found her surprisingly sea-kindly . |
| 28 | Ianthe looked up from her work to see Mervyn Cantrell standing at her elbow , with a tall , dark young man of about thirty hovering deferentially a pace or two behind him . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd have to comb through a year 's issues of about thirty different railway magazines to be — ’ |
| 30 | Students have a free choice deciding on five honours subjects , which are chosen from a total list of about thirty . |