Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 2 | Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution . |
| 3 | Oh could n't tell you my gross straight off , erm I do twenty hours a week and I bring home er bring home about thirty five pound . |
| 4 | Yes , they seem just about level |
| 5 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 6 | The dissociation times that we observe at 20°C vary between about 60 s ( from T 9 GCA 9 ) and 30 mins ( from several sites in natural DNA fragments ) , each of which is from a GC site . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , with a mixed fleet of locomotives , the optimum frequencies vary between about 12 and 30Hz , and I have compromised on 18Hz . |
| 8 | Do our senior decision takers and those responsible for formulating policy know enough about 1992 ? |
| 9 | Yet the males average only about 60 mm in length . |
| 10 | About the time we 're fucking get away about six quid ! |
| 11 | I I I visit approximately about thirty golf clubs on a weekly basis |
| 12 | ‘ I get home about 3.30 am , take a bottle of Evian water and the papers up to my office and tune into Bob Harris on Radio One . |
| 13 | You 'd start then , get home about half past three in the afternoon , yeah |
| 14 | She used to generally get home about , she used to go right to you see , and get home about seven o'clock at night . |
| 15 | Mm , that 's right , I mean the fact that agriculture tends to be perfectly com right , why there tends to be a lot of independent small producers is because there are no economies of scale , you know , apart from beyond , you know , a certain size of farm , you know , stud studies in the U K show that once you get , get beyond about two thousand hectares there are , there are significant dis-economies of scale , and although there are economies of scale up to that point , and that 's only in the case of very specialist types of production , by and large once you 've got a farm in excess of five hundred hectares , erm , you start to run into dis-economy , and mostly managerial dis-economies of scale . |
| 16 | The Government collect only about 14 per cent . |
| 17 | They use like about forty pairs a month . |
| 18 | Maoris now constitute only about nine per cent of the population of New Zealand , but as the earliest inhabitants they have intertwined all of New Zealand with their folklore , traditions and place-names . |
| 19 | So I think probably about ten percent , so they lost |
| 20 | Leave here about five then ? |
| 21 | And there 's and I tiptoe downstairs about nine . |
| 22 | I reckon she must get home , take home about eighty quid a week or something . |
| 23 | Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment . |
| 24 | The needs of knitwear design software in this respect are fairly small — most need only about half a megabyte of RAM — some other programs that I have used need two megabytes , or four times as much memory . |
| 25 | But commercial printing and typesetting , which , admittedly , comprise only about 2 per cent of turnover , were described as reflecting the weakness of the UK 's printing industry and the overcapacity which continued relentlessly to drive down prices , often below break-even point . |
| 26 | Although together these elements comprise only about 22 ppm of the Earth 's crust they have many industrial uses , particularly as homogenous catalysts , as well as in less obvious areas such as cancer chemotherapy and in car exhaust systems . |
| 27 | We have just about enough money . ’ |
| 28 | that start with a C you learn maybe about ten or twenty that start with a K and you say well if it 's not one of these I do n't know I 'm gon na s try it with a C. |