Example sentences of "[vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 2 | The three women say this is contrary to the wishes of thousands of people who contributed about £3 million to help troops and their families who suffered in the war . |
| 3 | The only one of the renewable sources currently commercially exploited on a significant scale is hydro-electric power which in 1983 contributed about 7% to world energy supply . |
| 4 | In 1991 the stake in Carnaud-Metalbox contributed about a quarter of total trading profits of £125 million . |
| 5 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 6 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 7 | Each weighed about 54 grains of gold . |
| 8 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 9 | I 've just completed a 16,000 mile trip around the US , carrying a Dell notebook that weighed about 7lb , and believe me , the difference is impressive . |
| 10 | At birth it weighed about 40 kilos . |
| 11 | And then after that erm I did er an eight day trek erm which was in the Anapurna region of the Himalayas and that again was sleeping in tents and we had sherpas , porters , to carry all our luggage apart from things like water that we carried in our day sacks and they carried four bags each on their backs and my bag weighed about thirty pounds . |
| 12 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 13 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 14 | Returning in 1979 to search ice patches near the Belgica as well as the Yamato Mountains , they found about 3000 more specimens ! |
| 15 | Then , between two pages , she found about thirty polaroids loose . |
| 16 | my uncle 's gone oh fuck off like this and he started to put his fork in again and we goes , my dad goes well that look distinctly like a three inch mortar shell so I would n't put any more in there if , I would n't put your fucking fork 's in there again if I was you , they had to get the bomb squad out , they diffused it , they found about five fucking mortar bombs |
| 17 | A JEWISH group that helped about 80 Bosnian mostly Muslim refugees fly to Israel yesterday says the Palestine Liberation Organisation made a last-minute bid to prevent the flight because it did not want Israel to look good . |
| 18 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 19 | The meeting , held in Leyburn Methodist church hall and organised by the Wensleydale Rail Association , Wensleydale Environmental Supporters Group and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , drew about 100 people from villages and towns from Hawes to Yarm . |
| 20 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a bad day and we only caught about 2lb 6oz but it was enough to land the trophy , 2 added Alf , a foreman in the fabrication department . |
| 22 | Wages rose about 9 per cent , although inflationary pressure meant that average settlements would probably rise to 12 per cent in 1991 . |
| 23 | In 1991 , productivity rose about 3 per cent , which compared favourably with total Scottish manufacturing productivity , down more than 1 per cent . |
| 24 | For a 30×30cm cushion cover , we used about 7.5m of 15mm-wide ribbon in each of two colours ( 15m in total ) . |
| 25 | They did n't fetch ten ye they used about fifty , or sixty , or seventy yearlings from Doncaster all in one special . |
| 26 | Mustafa got Arab engineers up from Tel Aviv to build it and it cost about 700 Palestinian pounds . |
| 27 | The carrycot , with buggy combined , has been really good value ; it cost about £120 but I 've had so much use out of it already . |
| 28 | In 1978 it cost about $2.50 to have a ton of hazardous waste dropped in a safe hole in the ground ; in 1987 the cost ranged from $200 upwards . |
| 29 | Mr Murray said it cost about £100,000 a year for each intensive care bed so it was important not to over-budget for beds which would not be fully used . |
| 30 | ‘ About two years ago I worked out that it cost about £1,000 a week to keep a woman in prison . |