Example sentences of "[vb infin] about seven " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Scully says : ‘ At any time , I can have about seven or eight applications displayed on the workstation in front of me — those can include the trading system , market data , general ledger , hedging system , desktop publishing , graphics and spreadsheets . |
2 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |
3 | Oil industry representatives in the US expressed doubts last night about the effectiveness of the measures which , administration officials claim , will add about seven cents to the cost of a US gallon of petrol , which is about five-sixths the volume of the UK gallon . |
4 | Each field , he reckons , would require about seven hundred yards of quickset hedges , so giving a total of some twelve miles of hedgerow even on this comparatively small area of land . |
5 | Shall we say about seven o'clock ? ’ |