Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 2 | But even in the least conducive conditions , with no wind , you should be able make a properly held-off touch down within about two fuselage lengths of your chosen spot . |
| 3 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 4 | Overlap of turns occurs in only about 5 per cent of conversation or less , strongly suggesting that speakers somehow know exactly when and where to enter ( Ervin-Tripp 1979 ) . |
| 5 | A big avon , bulk shotted in only about three feet of racing water . |
| 6 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |
| 7 | With a neck that 's 3⅝″ wide instead of the ‘ normal ’ 3¼″ , the Grand Stick has space for twelve strings arranged in just about any format you can think of . |
| 8 | Well these down here about fifteen or sixteen |
| 9 | Ken Robson , president of Darlington Club and Institute , High Northgate , said : ‘ We run a pie and peas night down here about five times a year . |
| 10 | Oh , I 've been down here about twenty years though so it 's faded a bit |
| 11 | And we were down there about half past seven in the morning , and the trees were still felling then , with the wind . |
| 12 | This book helps on just about any game you care to name on a wide variety of computer formats . |
| 13 | The once-powerful communists have splintered into hundreds of pieces , the largest of which is the Democratic Party of the Left , now expected to pick up only about 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | On the North-East circuit today , which stretches from Middlesbrough to Ashington , boys make up only about three per cent of the dancing community . |
| 15 | So I waited , he generally turned up , I 've seen him not be up home till eight and half past eight in the morning but he never turned up so about nine o'clock I says , I 'd better phone the police . |
| 16 | Jacklin had pulled up short about 50 or 60 yards from the green — just the sort of position I 'd liked to have been in for us , ; Trevino put his fourth shot through the green . |
| 17 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 18 | But er up the shop , we 've been up there about fifty five years , from the time we give up eight years ago , you see . |
| 19 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 20 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
| 21 | ICI 's power stations put out only about 1.3 per cent of the UK 's sulphur total and 0.5 per cent of the nitrogen oxide total . |
| 22 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 23 | Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 24 | He went down to see his landlady , who told him Dolly had gone out just about ten minutes ago . |
| 25 | Where you can find out more about 1916 |
| 26 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 27 | Again , if you go back before about eighteen hundred , if you look at er if you look at art , you find that painters paint things entitled The Rape of Europa , The Rape of , The Rape of whoever it is and if you look at these pictures it 's just people lounging around with not very many clothes on . |
| 28 | ‘ We went to school together , and then Simone came out here about two years ago to open the boutique . |
| 29 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
| 30 | We just thought , they said , oh , we 'll show you where it is , so we drove round there , and no , he was n't there , and , so of course , we drove back there about four or five times during the day , and like we drove past there one time and there was a woman standing outside , she said like , oh what do you want , I was like , oh well , we 've come to see the house . |