Example sentences of "about [num] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 . |
| 2 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 3 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 4 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 5 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 6 | The first show quality Akitas came to Britain in about 1980 and no one then could have predicted just how quickly the breed would gain popularity . |
| 7 | It clearly influenced the League of Nations Union ‘ Peace Ballot ’ , held in June 1935 and involving about eleven and a half million people , the majority of whom voted in favour of disarmament and the need for collective military action against aggressor nations should economic sanctions fail . |
| 8 | three and a half minutes short , in fact you did it in about eleven and a half minutes . |
| 9 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 10 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 11 | Others , like Tim Robinson and Derek Randall , have their own businesses so that leaves us to fix up about 10 or a dozen with work at Trent Bridge , coaching and helping the commercial department as well as working on their game . |
| 12 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 13 | Anyway , it was a bit weird cos we had to go with parties cos they 're all they 're all black and they 're all about six and a half feet tall you know ! |
| 14 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 15 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 16 | Only old vehicles pre about 1940 and the occasional newer vehicle such as the Land Rover have the front opening windscreens . |
| 17 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 18 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 19 | Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours . |
| 20 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 21 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 22 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
| 23 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 24 | About three and a half foot from the ground . |
| 25 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 26 | Fifty per cent less on the mortgage means erm about three and a half thousand . |
| 27 | thirty six , he 's about three and a half |
| 28 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 29 | It 's about three and a half years . |
| 30 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |