Example sentences of "and [vb past] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So claimed his after two years recently and got about six thousand pound . |
| 2 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 3 | I started at the Grosvenor and visited about thirty-five before I stopped . ’ |
| 4 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 5 | It had around three times the membership of the CFDT and received about half of the votes cast in enterprise committee elections . |
| 6 | One bounce ; it hit the flag-stick and dropped about three feet from the hole . |
| 7 | The ship deviated from the agreed voyage and arrived about 10 days late and in the meantime the price of sugar had fallen and the merchants lost over £4,000 . |
| 8 | Erm , about one o'clock , and finished about half past six , seven . |
| 9 | We took off within minutes and flew about 100 miles to Swift Current , at which point the storm had increased to such velocity that Buchanan made an emergency landing and we all found a hotel in the town for the night . |
| 10 | The delay knocked work back two years and swallowed about 4 per cent of the total project budget . |
| 11 | William Ryder , 57 , took a bottle of barbiturate tablets from his pharmacy , went down to the beach and swallowed about 500 of them , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
| 13 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 14 | One time in Houston , Texas , I stagedived and took about ten people with me . |
| 15 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 16 | On Friday morning she was seized with a bilious vomiting accompanied with spasms and died about 12 o'clock at night . ’ |
| 17 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 18 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 19 | The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road . |
| 20 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
| 21 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 22 | On the other hand , I had read the paper since I was 11 and had about half a dozen good jokes about The Cure that I was keen to share with the nation . |
| 23 | The main part of the chamber was taken up by a table , long and black and battered , that stood at right angles to the sergeant 's desk and had about half a dozen unpadded chairs around it . |
| 24 | They were easy interviews and lasted about ten minutes . |
| 25 | The brochure is published , printed and published about four months into the building , is that right or not ? |