Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 2 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 3 | An unusual cross-shaped Renaissance building erected about 1600 by Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise the Passion . |
| 4 | ICI produces about 2 Mt of chlorine each year and this is used both in-house and by other chemical producers to make a variety of different types of chemicals , including polymers , solvents , rubber chemicals , agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ We were planning the next evacuation when the shelling began … we were flat on the ground on the landing zone when the last shell impacted about 20 yards from us , injuring two Canadian UN soldiers . ’ |
| 6 | And the puddings make about sixty pounds . |
| 7 | One species of Gastrotheca produces about 200 young at a time . |
| 8 | Our principal concern , in the present context , is to consider how conflicts between social groups develop within the limits of given structural conditions , how such conflicts bring about political change , and what kinds of social group play a major role in this process . |
| 9 | Begin with a 25 watt bulb placed about 5 cm above the soil . |
| 10 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 11 | ( The oxide contains about 60 per cent metallic tin , which is recovered only after the material is reduced in a smelter . ) |
| 12 | The corporate finance division has about 180 staff in five departments : corporate advisory , projects finance , securities , debt financing and international corporate finance . |
| 13 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 14 | The Little Scala holds about 600 people . |
| 15 | Skin contains about 70 percent water , 10–13 percent of which is within the outer , visible corneal layer . |
| 16 | West Germany needs about 4,000 electronic data processing specialists , and can fill this gap by using India 's skilled and relatively inexpensive manpower . |
| 17 | We lost roughly 1,000 trees in this year 's gales , and we 're worried that the squirrels may be short of fir cones ; they say one red squirrel needs about six acres of woodland to survive . |
| 18 | This leads to very large numbers , but do n't be misled into thinking that the inert gases are extraordinarily abundant : a kilogramme of a typical solid contains about 10 25 atoms . |
| 19 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
| 20 | Old Parnham phoned about ten minutes ago . |
| 21 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 22 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |
| 23 | The Conceicao programme produces about 15 general practitioners a year from a two year training programme ( a third year is optional ) . |
| 24 | The action involves about 50 Cleveland solicitors . |
| 25 | Minimizing — " Our area may have a problem but I 've never seen it except for the pushers hanging about that dreadful housing estate " . |
| 26 | His analysis of the occupations recorded in the Northampton militia list for 1777 , which names men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if required , reveals that craftsmen formed about half of Northampton 's adult male workforce . |
| 27 | The cars stopped about twenty yards from the front of the cottage . |
| 28 | The Royal Mail produces about nine British special stamp issues a year . |
| 29 | The combined new firm has discretionary funds of more than £4 billion under management , to which Bell Lawrie contributes about half . |
| 30 | A part of his inheritance has gone in a number of ventures ; his books make about two and six a year . |