Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That represents about 0.77 per cent . |
| 2 | That covers about half of the erm of the county . |
| 3 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 4 | Each weighed about 54 grains of gold . |
| 5 | If one is interested in a 3 kilobase fragment then this constitutes about 10 pg ( 10 - 1 g ) of the sample . |
| 6 | This covers about 90 charities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 9 | This allows about 650 megabytes ( 650,000,000 bytes ) of data to be stored on a single disc . |
| 10 | This occurs about four or five weeks after apparent recovery and results in all four legs suddenly swelling up tremendously and the development of small haemorrhagic spots on the lips . |
| 11 | This produced about 2,500 completed questionnaires . |
| 12 | This includes about 60 talented young graduates and engineers ( what most companies might call the ‘ A list ’ ) who now have a stint out on the front line , . |
| 13 | This followed about 30 ETA-linked arrests in the Basque region the previous week and a statement by ETA on Feb. 3 to the effect that violence would continue as long as the Basque region " continues to be denied its political , social and cultural rights " . |
| 14 | This takes about two weeks to complete and costs £10,000 . |
| 15 | This takes about six weeks — just as you 're about to hand in your notice , it suddenly clicks and they are doing it themselves without you having to say anything . |
| 16 | The toffs are no longer willing to crawl about all day in the wilds . |
| 17 | At least thirty minutes would have to be allocated to each child , if they were to do justice to their abilities , and this meant about fifteen hours for a class of thirty . |
| 18 | The bullocks , well I suppose bullocks like this weigh about seventeen , eighteen hundred weight alive , when they was on their feet , you see , yeah . |
| 19 | However , it is difficult to find evidence that this brought about fundamental ideological shifts on the part of different groups — notably , within Whitehall . |
| 20 | This represented about 80 to 85 per cent of the school 's total budget . |
| 21 | This took about six hours to record , the eventual programme being of 30 minutes duration . |
| 22 | All this took about four minutes . |
| 23 | This means about 285,000 machines . |
| 24 | If the economically active population of Europe is set at about one third of the total ( very conservative ! ) , this means about 110 million people . |
| 25 | Would you be willing to deliver about 10 newsletters to houses nearby ? |
| 26 | It was renamed the Polytechnic of Wales in 1975 , and in 1981–82 had about 2,900 full-time and sandwich students and 1,368 part-time students . |
| 27 | This left about 70 smaller regional brewers , although several have turnovers of more than £50m and one , Greenall Whitley , has sales of more than £250m a year . |
| 28 | President , Congress , brothers and sisters the G M B is a general broad-based union , so the people here , the delegates here from the private sector may wonder what the fuss is about , as my colleague from London asked why was n't all this kicked about twelve years ago ? |
| 29 | They suggested a mixed system in which the trunk cables that connect towns and neighbourhoods are fibre , leaving coaxial wires to carry signals into houses and offices from a series of switching stations each serving about 100 subscribers . |
| 30 | During another epoch , the polar ice-cap expanded and covered a large part of the northern hemisphere , and it was only when that receded about 12,000 years ago that what was left of the Thulean Province reappeared from beneath the ice as the island we now call Iceland . |