Example sentences of "about [num] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These counts recorded totals of 23–50 birds in 1953 , about 290 in the period 1967–1968 , and 326 , including 98 young of the year , in 1971 . |
| 2 | After leaving school at around ten o'clock , we arrived at Cliff College at about four-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 3 | I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework . |
| 4 | Cecilia Darne , who lived round the corner , said she heard a bell toll once at about eight in the morning . |
| 5 | The variations within that calculation are not extreme — perhaps an extra half-hour at breakfast ; perhaps they did not leave Aberdeen precisely ( Boswell says ‘ about eight in the morning ’ ) , perhaps the road wound around to make thirty miles . |
| 6 | But she drops that kid about eight in the morning ! |
| 7 | He bearded Jean-Paul when his brother finally got up at about eleven in the morning . |
| 8 | I know I unlocked the cupboard to get the morphia at about eleven in the morning . ’ |
| 9 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 10 | During this period the population of Danzig rose from about 50,000 in the 1830s to about 70,000 by 1860 . |
| 11 | Entries for a large number of compounds ( about 30,000 in the CED , 11,000 in the OALDCE ) can be obtained as headwords and subentries ( e.g. ‘ in one 's right mind ’ , ‘ by rights ’ occur under the headword ‘ right ’ ; ‘ right about ’ , ‘ right angle ’ , ‘ right away ’ occur as headwords ) . |
| 12 | John Cranko was born at about six in the morning of 15 August 1927 , a Monday . |
| 13 | On Thursday , at about six in the morning , it might do them good to have a bottle of Becks in their hand . |
| 14 | It was about six in the morning and the nurse thought I would have the baby by about twelve o'clock . |
| 15 | At about six in the evening the trip home would begin , after some hectic moments of rounding up the strays . |
| 16 | The weather has been ideal — about 85 in the shade , and not much more , although they say it is unusually ‘ cold ’ for the time of year ! |
| 17 | About three in the morning was the worst time of all , when we were at our lowest ebb . |
| 18 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 19 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 20 | You know that every day after about three in the afternoon , that 's it . |
| 21 | Devlin came awake about three in the morning to the sound of gunfire in the distance . |
| 22 | The alarm came at about three in the morning , a barn-owl 's screech out of the night from Meurig on top of the ridge to Iorwerth waking and on guard at the camp . |
| 23 | And there 's about three in the middle who go right , this is a good song |
| 24 | There 's only about three in the street . |
| 25 | It seems that in Edinburgh the ETS grew from an average of 265 members in the late 1850s to about 650 in the late 18605,6 In Edinburgh , as in the other towns , the membership consisted of compositors and press- or machinemen , side by side , within the same branch . |
| 26 | Maxim knew he 'd had about 650 in the wallet . |
| 27 | After the final whistle hundreds of spectators from the crowd of about 16,000 in the 28,000-seat Government Stadium at Causeway Bay invaded the pitch for a mass mud-bath . |
| 28 | The exact size of its staff is secret but was estimated at about 20,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | ASLEF now has a membership of about 20,000 in the railways , and the overwhelming majority of footplate staff are members of it . |
| 30 | When we was about fourteen in the fourth year at school , there was this quite chubby bloke he 'd have a towel just there while you shower . |