Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 2 | And the puddings make about sixty pounds . |
| 3 | Our principal concern , in the present context , is to consider how conflicts between social groups develop within the limits of given structural conditions , how such conflicts bring about political change , and what kinds of social group play a major role in this process . |
| 4 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 5 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 6 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |
| 7 | Minimizing — " Our area may have a problem but I 've never seen it except for the pushers hanging about that dreadful housing estate " . |
| 8 | His analysis of the occupations recorded in the Northampton militia list for 1777 , which names men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if required , reveals that craftsmen formed about half of Northampton 's adult male workforce . |
| 9 | The cars stopped about twenty yards from the front of the cottage . |
| 10 | A part of his inheritance has gone in a number of ventures ; his books make about two and six a year . |
| 11 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 13 | Equities yield about 3.5 percentage points less than bonds . |
| 14 | He guesstimates that the existence of different European currencies cost about 1.5 per cent of Europe 's total income each year , merely in terms of the losses incurred by traders and investors when they change currencies . |
| 15 | These carousels hold about twenty to thirty panels and feed the machine automatically . |
| 16 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |
| 17 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |
| 18 | The fact that these two industries pay extremely well — average weekly wages in the chemical industry are $146 and in the refining business $128 — means that every job in these sectors creates about nine other jobs . |
| 19 | The presentation featured short sequences grouped into continuous units lasting about 15 minutes each . |
| 20 | Today 's weather was bright and sunny and most of the cars went about 20 seconds faster . |
| 21 | ( a ) Eyemouth is a busy fishing port specialising in shellfish , ( b ) The cannons are 32-pounders cast about 1830. ( c ) Coldingham ( off route ) ; site of an 11th-century Benedictine priory , largely destroyed by Cromwell 's men in 1648. ( d ) St Abb 's Quiet fishing village with picturesque harbour . |
| 22 | The speed skaters go about half that speed , but danger slides at you from every corner . |
| 23 | Cocks died about 21 October 1726 . |
| 24 | They agree , however , on four points : the pleasantries lasted about thirty seconds ; there was a terrible row ; one of them stormed out ; and the word ‘ cock ’ was used . |
| 25 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 26 | Journalists said about 50 soldiers of the HVO gathered at a strategic road junction on the convoy 's route north and threatened to blow it up . |
| 27 | All fungi require about 20 per cent moisture content in the host wood to germinate and although in new buildings the moisture content of the timber may be as high as 18 per cent , this is soon reduced to about 12–14 per cent by heating and ventilation of the enclosed spaces . |
| 28 | The first was that the lads were n't allowed to move freely within the prison ; another was the size of the cells , in which the lads spend about 11 hours each day . |
| 29 | In this project we shall examine what preconceptions teenagers have about driving and how these preconceptions change as a functions of age and first-hand experience of driving . |
| 30 | The prospect of a national curriculum with prescribed core and foundation subjects covering about 70 per cent of timetabled time , marks a departure from earlier recommendations that sought to delineate a core of subject studies or areas of experience within the secondary curriculum . |