Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed both Oxford and Cambridge had become , relatively speaking , seriously understaffed over the previous decade despite the fact that at each university about 900 students were now reading English , three times as many as in 1965 . |
| 2 | For external use a moisture content of perhaps 20 per cent may be suitable , for an unheated building about 15 per cent , and for a steam-heated environment about 8 or 10 per cent . |
| 3 | It was not only the prospect of Tuscany that had captivated Molly , it was the strange provision about three children , females preferred . |
| 4 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 5 | And you had that car about two years did n't you ? |
| 6 | With him sat two of his colleagues ; leathery , beery-voiced , — total weight about 750 lbs . |
| 7 | Like any nerve , the optic nerve is a trunk cable , a bundle of separate " insulated " wires , in this case about three million of them . |
| 8 | It is not to change the policy or feel some humility about 12 years of failure . |
| 9 | I 'll give him a bell about in half hour about six o'clock ? |
| 10 | The ‘ nerve centre ’ of the scheme is an old building about five minutes ‘ push ’ away from the Art and Design School in the very centre of the city . |
| 11 | Erm , the only example that I thought of , reading through this was erm , that of intelligence testing , erm , because intelligence testing er was held in high esteem about forty or fifty years ago . |
| 12 | I 've got it on this tape about fifteen times cos everybody supports Arsenal , I said stays in the cup longer . |
| 13 | The synaptic zones are without glial processes , the participating axon branches or dendrites are separated by a synaptic cleft about 20 nm wide , and the presynaptic knob contains mitochondria , glycogen granules and vesicles . |
| 14 | From an initial " rate " of sexual intercourse about five times a week , this had reduced to twice . |
| 15 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 16 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 17 | Once it reached a designated zone about 500 miles off Land 's End , the ship hove to and special tipping platforms were assembled along one side . |
| 18 | watch this till about I normally watch this till about two . |
| 19 | At this moment about 11 people came up to me with two dogs . |
| 20 | That lady is taking her children to see their grandmother who lives in another forest about fifty miles away . |
| 21 | Acting Detective Inspector Mark Braithwaite said : ‘ A group of individuals descended on this place about four in the morning . |
| 22 | We reached this place about ten this morning and are at present wind bound but trust we shall be fairly under way for Flinders tomorrow morning . |
| 23 | erm The Department of Trade and Industry stepped into this business about ten years ago and because there was a situation where there was no re-insurance , but when the company that was actually selling the policy when into liquidation erm there was no redress for the policy holder . |
| 24 | The conical roof of the summer-house showed above a high hedge about fifty yards down the bank , so forcing himself to act casually , he began to stroll towards it . |
| 25 | However , two of the patients with HBV and HDV showed a distinct clinical hepatitic syndrome about 12 weeks after transplantation . |
| 26 | ‘ Nuts ! ’ she concluded , regarding a photograph of a filthy caver in wet-suit and helmet , wedged in a muddy slit about two inches thinner than he was . |
| 27 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |
| 28 | People came in this morning about nine o'clock wanting |
| 29 | er , at the back page about nine inch by six wi you , were cut-outs and you cut it out and stuck them together to make a little paper , well , thick paper model . |
| 30 | Photogravure came into commercial use about 1880 . |