Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Barnes officials say they expect to send about eighty paintings from one of the world 's finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early modern art to tour four museums : the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , a museum in Tokyo , the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 3 | Hold up this measured piece of work to the machine , neither stretching nor easing and you find you appear to need about 120 stitches . |
| 4 | There would of course have been no story if the author had not given Ayesha enough of human frailty and caprice to bring about certain changes in the circumstances of her rule over the cannibalistic Amahaggar and her relations with Leo Vincey . |
| 5 | Choose changes you want to bring about that can easily be monitored . |
| 6 | With ‘ sleep apnoea ’ ( difficulty in breathing during sleep ) , sufferers literally stop breathing about 400 times a night leading to disrupted slumbers and daytime drowsiness . |
| 7 | Most education officers seem to think about four out of five claims are false . |
| 8 | I also remember leaving about 5 mins before the end to make the 5 mile walk to the station , only to hear the Leeds goal … or was it that I thought the noise was Leeds making it 3–2 ? ? ? |
| 9 | Norway , Sweden , and Switzerland continue to provide about twenty five to thirty percent . |
| 10 | Consequently , companies from the old colonial powers of Britain and France continue to own about 30 per cent of the stock of foreign investments , with the USA and Japan owning another 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Instead , there would be a greater awareness of how the social construction of criminal definitions and the criminal justice system operate to bring about this misleading image of serious criminals . |
| 12 | my Lord , I , my Lord I do recall about five years ago I , remember advising one of the future 's markets and see come to the life of me remember what was in them |
| 13 | I 've done about fifty percent I think . |
| 14 | When he when we get when I 've done about two pages guess how much he 's done ? |
| 15 | Once you 've done about five you 'll be alright . |
| 16 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 17 | I 've done about twenty or thirty pages but that 's |
| 18 | I know we 've seen about six times |
| 19 | I do n't think I have seen enough of Beeny to critize/praise him ( even though I 've seen about 12 live games this year ) . |
| 20 | They do it in and up the road in Peterborough they 've got about thirty eight community centre and the labour run council there is handing every one , every one of them over to the local communities . |
| 21 | I think I 've got about thirty . |
| 22 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 23 | Just sad , I 've got about eight projects . |
| 24 | Erm no I think I 've got about two weeks off . |
| 25 | Yes we 've got about two hundred people outside . |
| 26 | And I got , I 've got about two hundred of these poly-foam chairs as well back |
| 27 | No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get |
| 28 | I 've got wo I 've got about two earrings , and that 's it . |
| 29 | I 've got about two here |
| 30 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |