Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unusual cross-shaped Renaissance building erected about 1600 by Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise the Passion . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ We were planning the next evacuation when the shelling began … we were flat on the ground on the landing zone when the last shell impacted about 20 yards from us , injuring two Canadian UN soldiers . ’ |
| 3 | Begin with a 25 watt bulb placed about 5 cm above the soil . |
| 4 | ( The oxide contains about 60 per cent metallic tin , which is recovered only after the material is reduced in a smelter . ) |
| 5 | The corporate finance division has about 180 staff in five departments : corporate advisory , projects finance , securities , debt financing and international corporate finance . |
| 6 | Skin contains about 70 percent water , 10–13 percent of which is within the outer , visible corneal layer . |
| 7 | We lost roughly 1,000 trees in this year 's gales , and we 're worried that the squirrels may be short of fir cones ; they say one red squirrel needs about six acres of woodland to survive . |
| 8 | This leads to very large numbers , but do n't be misled into thinking that the inert gases are extraordinarily abundant : a kilogramme of a typical solid contains about 10 25 atoms . |
| 9 | The pregnant mare needs about 14 percent of he diet in protein during the last third of her pregnancy and in the first three months of lactation . |
| 10 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 11 | The Conceicao programme produces about 15 general practitioners a year from a two year training programme ( a third year is optional ) . |
| 12 | The action involves about 50 Cleveland solicitors . |
| 13 | The Royal Mail produces about nine British special stamp issues a year . |
| 14 | A major difference between the dictionaries is the number of words defined — learner 's dictionaries tend to contain about 30,000 headwords , general purpose dictionaries ( e.g. CED ) have about 100,000 definitions , Websters Third New International has 450,000 and the Oxford English Dictionary has about 500,000 definitions . |
| 15 | They had n't cared to join the small crowd of spectators in the old stand , but had remained in the car parked about twenty-five yards behind one of the goals . |
| 16 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 17 | However , industry needs about 1.5 million tonnes of pure ethanol , free from water , each year . |
| 18 | The original CED typesetting tape occupied about 27 MBytes . |
| 19 | The programme included about half-a-dozen hymns and a selection of choruses from the Messiah . |
| 20 | Thornton and Higgs were told that each boat caught about 2000 dolphins each year , travelling up to 180 km ( 1 12 miles ) offshore to find their quarry . |
| 21 | There are many such compounds in dictionaries ( e.g. the Collins English Dictionary contains about 30,000 compounds ) . |
| 22 | The College has about 400 students , all of whom are full-time ; like those in the nearby Welsh Agricultural College and Aberystwyth College of Further Education , and indeed the University College , they are all members of the Aberystwyth Guild of Students . |
| 23 | The club has about sixty members from industry and commerce , with East and West Sussex , and the boundaries of the surrounding counties . |
| 24 | The Government is yet to announce the number of councils it intends to introduce though present thinking favours about 30 . |
| 25 | It is estimated that divergence of new world-old world monkeys-hominoid lineage happened about 50 million years ago , indicating that the P3A exon is conserved through primate evolution . |
| 26 | The area bordered by Brown Street , St. Ann 's Street , Rampart Road and Milford Hill/Milford Street , each side measuring about 250 yards had eight General Stores , two Confectioners , two Greengrocers , one Newsagent and one Dairy serving a population of some fifteen hundred people . |
| 27 | The card delivers about 27 mips and costs £5,568 plus VAT , with the memory expansion at £2,915 . |
| 28 | Ridgewell considered that this decrease began about 1952 and it apparently reached its maximum about 1961 , when no breeding Sparrowhawks were reported from anywhere in the county . |
| 29 | Some exhibitors will bring a tray containing about forty berries which have to be classified by colour and weighed . |
| 30 | Our guide was there to meet us , his silver hair outshone only by the enormity of his rucsac containing about twenty-five flags on long poles . |