Example sentences of "but about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 3 | I can remember once being told by a karate teacher that the trick of breaking planks of wood with the edge of your hand was to aim your blow not at the planks but about six inches below them . |
| 4 | It was hard work , but about six months later , I had a very fine canoe . |
| 5 | Regrettably , most of the times the ACE arrived at Quainton , the rain poured and the wind blew but about 1,500 people still travelled on the train . |
| 6 | The recent recruits from Lancashire were allowed to go home , but about 1300 others were taken prisoner , four officers on half-pay being shot as deserters and 150 of the more prominent civilians being led through London , amid mocking shouts from the crowd , with arms tied behind their backs and preceded by — a final gesture of contempt — a man carrying a warming-pan . |
| 7 | But about five years ago it shifted ‘ on expert advice ’ , to a denser uranium titanium mixture . |
| 8 | The treatment was discontinued but about five minutes later he suddenly remembered the reason for his unusual reaction . |
| 9 | Between them , but about five miles further distant , a tenuous column of bluish smoke , hardly visible against a cloudless sky , hung lazily in the air . |
| 10 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 11 | ‘ Down fielded a weakened side but about nine of our players from that day will be championship contenders , ’ stresses Chivers , ‘ The McKenna Cup final was a pedestrian affair but next Sunday 's game will be about life and death . |
| 12 | But about 4 p.c. of Down 's syndrome children are born with either mosaic Down 's syndrome or inherited Downs and these conditions do not appear to be covered on the policy . |
| 13 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 14 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 15 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 16 | This is not , however , a novel about two cultures , but about two people , about friendship . |
| 17 | After a while , the numbness I 'd experienced after the press conference set in , and I felt again as if I were talking not about John and me , but about two different people . |
| 18 | ‘ But about two wet miles deep , ’ said the pilot . |
| 19 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't yet know why the vehicle ran off the road but about eleven people were injured . ’ |
| 21 | She felt not twenty-four , but about fourteen . |
| 22 | Nothing came of the latter , but about 1838 he demonstrated a fairly successful hot-air engine in London , suitable for a road vehicle . |
| 23 | Some were put aboard Italian vessels and air force transports and taken back , but about 7,000 refugees were held in a disused football stadium without sanitation or cover . |
| 24 | Then , in 1965 radar echoes from Mercury showed that the planet did not after all have a period of 88 days , but about 60 days . |
| 25 | But about 60 people braved the weather to attend the rally — organised by Gill Hill and members of her Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead class — and enjoyed sessions taught by Margaret Charlwood and Ann Langford . |
| 26 | His orders were obeyed by more than 450 competitors but about 30 — they were apparently reluctant to lose their position at the head of the race - steeplechased over the two closed barriers and carried on running . |
| 27 | But about half of these helpers will never breed . |
| 28 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
| 29 | But about half of the 200,000 people who fall into either of those categories go on to full-time education and become entitled to student relief of the community charge . |
| 30 | But about half of US R and D was financed by the federal government , 80 per cent of which went for space and military purposes . |