Example sentences of "about [num] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory . |
| 2 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 3 | The average baseline Hamilton score was about 26 on the 21 item scale and 24 on the 17 item scale . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that a quiet bedroom is about 35 on the scale , at 55 communication starts to become difficult , a car travelling at a steady 60 k.p.h. at seven metres distance is just over 70 , a heavy diesel lorry at 40 k.p.h. at seven metres is 85 , a pneumatic drill at seven metres is 95 and 120 is the threshold of pain . |
| 5 | The present palazzo was built in about 1170 on the site of an earlier episcopal seat destroyed by Barbarossa . |
| 6 | They would on average cover twice the area of present constituencies , and their electorates , at about 130,000 on the 1987 figures , would be twice as large . |
| 7 | There was about ten on the committee and er the full time secretary . |
| 8 | Well , we should have knocked off work at about twelve on the Saturday , and instead of that , being a shop , they were taking orders and we had to do all the alterations as they came in , and bought the clothes . |
| 9 | As Rex was currently at about five on the scale of ten he left Laura to steam gently and made for the cocktail cabinet . |
| 10 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 11 | ‘ Our enquiries suggest that the car entered the water at about three-thirty on the same day . |
| 12 | ‘ I paint about 30 pictures a year and I usually have about four on the go at once . |
| 13 | It was wholly predictable , then , that at about 8.50 on the morning of Monday , March 17 , I was lying face down in the grammar school dirt with 30 jeering first formers on my back . |
| 14 | Marion Lindo claimed that Drew had had lunch with her husband and herself about 2.30 on the Saturday . |