Example sentences of "in about [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The 10.12 Chesterfield-Sheffield local arrives at Staveley Works in about 1937 hauled by GC class B5 No. 5186 .
2 In 1991/92 it was granted in about 270,000 cases .
3 The honour itself , however , dark velvet and buckled just below the knee on the left leg , is genuinely ancient , for the Garter is the second oldest decoration , founded by Edward III in about 1348 .
4 NIGEL HAD NOT SEEN KAREN IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS AND WHEN HE finally called on her she was cold .
5 He comes in about six o'clock this mornin' and he 's in an awful mess .
6 If they ca n't be accomplished in about six weeks , set yourself some smaller sub-objectives that you can complete today or within a week , just like on the five-mile run example .
7 The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’
8 In about six months ' time I 'm going to be a father . ’
9 I thing I wrote the original 850-odd pages of King Rat in about six to eight weeks .
10 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
11 All things being equal we could probably turn one of these things around , which is basically preparing all the literature , briefing the systems people and getting it all printed up and everything in about six weeks .
12 As she left she said I 'm looking forward to seeing you all in about six weeks .
13 They 've unveiled their first Grand Prix car and will go racing next year if … and it 's a very BIG if … they can raise six million pounds in about six weeks
14 Aides said that a 73-year-old Indian guru , lying on slabs of ice and pronounced dead by doctors more than a month ago , is in a state of deep meditation and will wake up in about six months .
15 He said : ‘ The rig was in about six feet of water , much deeper than she would normally go .
16 Cos I 'm hoping , our Clay , she said he 'll be in about six , half past .
17 In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions .
18 You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty .
19 If I 'm not mistaken , it means it was made by W F Smith of Stockton in about seventeen hundred .
20 Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families .
21 But this alliance was followed by others , with more accessible cities , Leontini on the east coast of Sicily , and Rhegion on the straits between Italy and Sicily , on the Italian side ( ML 63–4 ) , probably in about 443 .
22 The home as a status symbol : a woman of leisure at Larchgrove House , Balerno in about 1897 .
23 She was presumably trained in her father 's workshop , and she came to England into royal service in about 1545 .
24 After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road .
25 A Charter making Stockport a free borough was granted by the Earl of Chester in about 1220 ; and a second Charter granted in 1260 gave the right to hold a market each Friday and an annual Fair , commencing on St. Wilfred 's Day and running for the seven days following .
26 The best Guide Book was written by Thomas West , who was born in about 1717 and went to school in Edinburgh .
27 It was originally a corn mill and later became well known as , in about 1890 , it became the site of Lord Edward Spencer Churchill 's first electric power generator .
28 Education at Brighton College and early apprenticeship to the Bordeaux wine merchants , Jean Calvert & Co. , preceded training in the hotel industry and appointment , in about 1890 , as manager of the Victoria Hotel , Northumberland Avenue , London .
29 In favour of the latter explanation is the sudden appearance of the Cretan round tomb in about 3000 BC : they are not known in Crete before that time .
30 In about 1800 , a bull and two heifers from the Duke of Bedford 's herd had been exported to southern Africa in order to improve the weak , long-legged local oxen .
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