Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've only travelled about half a mile . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It w it 'll take erm roughly about erm it 'll perhaps stop about half the light |
| 6 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 7 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 8 | Only took about half his bottle . |
| 9 | So erm so went about half past five . |
| 10 | In fact , in winds of Force 3 to 5 it only does about half the work in getting your weight over the back foot , the rest is up to you . |
| 11 | At this time he only ran about half the companies in Belfast . |
| 12 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |
| 13 | A chicken once put its foot through a newly-sheeted tunnel , but the less said about that the better . |
| 14 | A century ago there were empires whose boundaries were difficult for outside traders to penetrate ; now exporters of communications products and services experience difficulties in entering the domestic markets of such large population nations as China , India , USSR , USA , Indonesia , Japan , and Brazil — nations which together have about half the world 's people . |
| 15 | Many of us are in here at seven o'clock in the morning because that is noon time over there and so we only have about half a day to work together . |
| 16 | — Other dramatists did not bring about such a transition . |
| 17 | VAT must now be charged on repairs , reconditioning or any other work on a customer 's goods subsequently removed to another European Community country that does not bring about any fundamental change in the nature of those goods . |
| 18 | Our meeting with the ACPO representative did not bring about any change in this position , and we had to admit that we shared their concern for road safety . |
| 19 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 20 | The producer did finally arrive about half an hour into the party , and he scurried around meeting everyone , making up for his earlier absence . |
| 21 | And it finally brought about many long anticipated changes , like the decline of America 's auto industry , and the counterbalancing rise of Japan 's . |
| 22 | And a cut down multiplication table , where he just learns about half of them . |
| 23 | Proteins , which generally comprise about half the total mass of biomembranes , determine the specific membrane functions . |
| 24 | The grants announced yesterday cover about half of the funding for the higher education sector . |
| 25 | It is a prayerful and meaningful service which usually last about half an hour . |
| 26 | Although the company has subsidiaries in 10 countries , it still generates about half of its revenues , or about £70m , in the UK . |
| 27 | I watch I 'll probably watch about half an hour tonight , an hour tomorrow night . |
| 28 | you 'd be fed up sitting about all day and all night |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown . |
| 30 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |