Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 2 | What is seen is consistent with the interpretation that nine W particles of mass about 80 GeV were produced , and that these then decayed into electrons ( or positrons ) and neutrinos . |
| 3 | In second field , the route proceeds forward with right edge of field about 30 yds away to reach waymark in hedgerow ahead ; in third field go quarter right to cross right-hand hedgerow at waymark on tree which is 90 yds before far end of field . |
| 4 | that was really a lot of money about twenty two pounds . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd make anything go , ’ the girl said , a second after reading a paragraph on the front page of Variety about two big London managements — no mention of him — that were bidding against each other for the show . |
| 6 | Bait will be a piece of crust about half the size of a matchbox , torn from a new loaf . |
| 7 | He brings me a cup of tea about eight . |
| 8 | With the rise of palaeontology about 1800 this test became anyway less relevant : we can not supervise the mating of dinosaurs . |
| 9 | According to our experience the pancreatic blood flow in caerulein induced pancreatitis is significantly reduced already after two hours of caerulein infusion and then this reduction progresses to reach after five hours of infusion about half of the normal flow . |
| 10 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 11 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 12 | This was played with a piece of wood about six inches in length and three quarters of an inch in diameter , sharpened to a point at both ends and then placed on the ground . |
| 13 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 14 | ‘ The budget simply reflects that we have fewer people out of work about 30 per cent less than in 1987 . |
| 15 | On the other side , the track dropped sharply for a quarter of a mile where , to its right , was a dome of sand about 150 yards in diameter . |
| 16 | In Denmark , it forms a wedge of sediment about 40 m in thickness at the edge of the basin . |
| 17 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 18 | circadian oscillation of period about 27 hours and decreasing amplitude is established on transfer to complete darkness . |
| 19 | The Neolithic advent of farming about 10,000 years ago seems to have produced a fundamental shift in attitudes to animals and the natural world . |
| 20 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 21 | It seems to be coming back fairly swiftly actually , and airlines are quite confident now that erm they will see traffic growth once again of round about five per cent |
| 22 | The only RPG that you wo n't get too embarrassed buying is Toe Jam And Earl , an ideal chill-out kind of game about two alien rappers who strut the screen looking for the missing parts of their spaceship so they can return to planet Funkotron . |
| 23 | Cut a circle of plastic about 5 or 6″ diameter , make a hole in the middle wide enough for the plant . |
| 24 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 25 | The wing collar , which fell out of favour about 50 years ago ( except for the very formal ‘ white-tie ’ outfit worn with a tailcoat ) has recently be revived , thanks to the interest of the young . |
| 26 | Without calculating moments of inertia about three Cartesian axes we can not be sure which band-type corresponds to which of the three IR-active symmetry species , but we now know that the B-axis is associated with a 1 vibrations , and is therefore the z axis . |
| 27 | She had hauled herself out of bed about twenty minutes ago when she 'd heard the doorbell . |
| 28 | All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim . |
| 29 | Six — year — old child carried about 56 lbs of coal about ten to 14 times per day . |
| 30 | The SLA 's release of 51 Arab prisoners from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " on Sept. 11 coincided with Israel handing over the bodies of nine members of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , and followed the receipt by Israel of information about two of its servicemen missing since 1986 . |