Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only travelled about half a mile . ’ |
| 3 | And we 'd perhaps make about six trips , and I think we used to get sixpence each for that . |
| 4 | He only averages about twenty five , thirty hours a week really . |
| 5 | A woman would quite likely have ten or twelve children , several miscarriages and still-births only to see about half her children die from common childhood ailments . |
| 6 | Well they should take them off , only got about twenty ships left . |
| 7 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 8 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 9 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 10 | ‘ We never watch television together and only say about fifty words a night , if that . ’ |
| 11 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 12 | This represented a considerable decline during the previous 100 years , since one heronry alone contained about 400 pairs about 1840 . |
| 13 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 14 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 15 | a really beautiful room , but it only holds about forty , fifty people , what she 's gon na do is push the weddings , but she 's gon na , and say look , you can use this place |
| 16 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 17 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 18 | You go there God he only looks about five Mark , do n't he look like Mark though ? |
| 19 | Well precisely for that reason , that not only this particular person , but lots of other people at times cause trouble , and I 'm not always there erm and Pauline , who 's next to me , who you 'll probably talk to in a minute — she 's over eighty , she 'll kill me for telling you that because she does n't look it , she only looks about forty , but — erm she stuck in there and people are frightened and erm worried about her , and the fact is that erm there 's no other way of calling the police than having a phone . |
| 20 | Yeah alright well I 'll probably only do about four so I do n't want to take all the cards . |
| 21 | I think I 've only said about three words in you 're doing all the chatting . |
| 22 | You 've only done about two words , then you have a break and then you go back to it and you get another three or four . |
| 23 | I only done about eight or nine in all the time I was there . |
| 24 | Most wintering reports come from the coast from Langney Point to the Midrips , particularly Rye Bay and , excepting passage birds , numbers further west have only exceeded about 10 birds in very cold weather . |
| 25 | It 's only got about twelve thousand miles . |
| 26 | cos she 's only got about four weeks before , she goes back and erm |
| 27 | She 'd only got about eight caravans then . |
| 28 | It 's only got , I mean , it 's only got about five frets on it , so you . |
| 29 | We 've only got about two or three people in the whole house that do n't have a wheelchair if they go out . |
| 30 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |