Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 2 | ICI produces about 2 Mt of chlorine each year and this is used both in-house and by other chemical producers to make a variety of different types of chemicals , including polymers , solvents , rubber chemicals , agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals . |
| 3 | One species of Gastrotheca produces about 200 young at a time . |
| 4 | The Little Scala holds about 600 people . |
| 5 | West Germany needs about 4,000 electronic data processing specialists , and can fill this gap by using India 's skilled and relatively inexpensive manpower . |
| 6 | Old Parnham phoned about ten minutes ago . |
| 7 | The combined new firm has discretionary funds of more than £4 billion under management , to which Bell Lawrie contributes about half . |
| 8 | The TLS covers about 50 books a week , from most fields except science and technology . |
| 9 | CCOO has about 17,000 members or 26 per cent of the workforce , and SLF-UGT 12–13,000 ( of which something under 2,000 were brought into the union by the SLF ) . |
| 10 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 11 | Driving along the Quay , Lucy thought about that morning when she had gone to the little bistro on the Place de Trainant to find Volkov . |
| 12 | According to the Economist of May 26 , 1990 , Indonesia had about 1,100,000 sq km designated as " permanent forest " , of which the World Bank estimated that 10,000 sq km were lost each year . |
| 13 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 14 | Today Loblaws makes about half a million dollars a week on its 20 or so ‘ green ’ products — and sales are increasing . |
| 15 | They reckon Germany done about ten , fifteen minutes combat time over the , over the |
| 16 | Historic Scotland produced about 1.5 million free colour leaflets for distribution in the UK and overseas in 1992 – 3 . |
| 17 | At present , Wheal Jane produces about 1600 tonnes of tin per year , about the same as South Crofty mine near Redruth . |
| 18 | The village of Sancton lies about eight miles west of Beverley on the Market Weighton to Brough road . |
| 19 | The Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania has about 800,000 members , slightly fewer than the Catholic community . |
| 20 | There is nothing wrong with being realistic and I suppose Scotland has about 20 or so players who could fit into the national side without weakening it , especially as we have recently lost a third of that national side . |
| 21 | Iceland has about forty per cent of the land area of the UK , but a population of only 250,000 . |
| 22 | Control of the councils remained unchanged , with the ruling PNP gaining about 60 per cent of the total vote and winning 12 councils ; the opposition JLP retained control of St Thomas . |
| 23 | Bupa has about 60 per cent of the private health insurance market . |
| 24 | The ring main has already broken several productivity records : Fairclough dug about 38 metres of tunnel in one 12-hour shift , setting a world record for wedgeblock tunnelling ( whereby the ground is supported with a ring of pre-cast concrete segments expanded by a concrete block ) . |
| 25 | Stepping into the space vacated by TV-am , GMTV inherited about two million viewers — breakfast television 's biggest single audience . |
| 26 | Then , when Ollie reached about 18 months of age , out of the blue , they had their first serious fight . |
| 27 | Total spending on the NHS represented about 4 per cent of the gross domestic product in 1948 , and rose to 6 per cent by 1990 , stabilising in the 1980s . |
| 28 | In 1844–53 Russia exported about 115 million hectolitres of grains per year , but in the second half of the 1870s between 47 and 89 million . |
| 29 | so she just had the rice and an egg with it and Gemma had about three pasties and I had stuffed tomatoes with rice and erm , what did I do with , I done rata , ratatouille and |
| 30 | Ashbourne had about 25 yards , whose houses provided shelter for some 750 people , or nearly a quarter of the town 's inhabitants . |