Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 2 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 3 | An Assembly of Citizens of the Russian Federation , bringing together about 4,000 Yeltsin supporters , met on April 5 . |
| 4 | Now age is taking its toll , with Mr Dunlop and Mr Fullarton part of a dwindling band of veterans , numbering only about 50 in Britain . |
| 5 | The crust , therefore , is an extremely thin surface layer representing only about 0.5 per cent of the Earth 's radius . |
| 6 | Extending his psychic sense of presence , he felt how the battle inside Vasilariov was congealing , slowing and centring desperately about fifteen kilometres north of the hotel . |
| 7 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 8 | People living near about 50 American weapons manufacturing and testing sites may also have been exposed to carcinogenic radiation , the fund said . |
| 9 | Exports remained weak as a whole , however , comprising only about 6 per cent of production . |
| 10 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |
| 11 | Well they reckon you stop growing now about eighteen . |
| 12 | The world 's gold-mining industry was stagnating , refining only about 45 per cent of metal from complex ores : the new process enabled 98 per cent extraction , and was hailed as the saviour of the industry . |
| 13 | As a result of the current devolution in favour of the regions , the Arts Council will be directly funding only about half the 170 arts bodies it funded in 1991 . |
| 14 | You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that . |
| 15 | However , the threat of importation of the disease has returned , not only on a small scale relating to violation of quarantine regulations by dog owners but because the rabies virus has been spread throughout Europe into France ( UK 's nearest continental neighbour ) by the red fox and concern is rising too about rabies-infected bats in Europe . |
| 16 | There were few changes in any of them as obvious as those which overtook Brighthelmstone , and their populations remained quite small , Chichester , the largest , having only about half Brighton 's in 1801 . |
| 17 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 19 | The remainder made for the Trig al Ab , a desert track running inland about thirty miles south of the coast . |
| 20 | The arrow , expressed as a wedge form , can minimise turbulence and drag in supersonic flight and in automobiles travelling beyond about 75 mph ( 120 km per hour ) . |
| 21 | Yes , well , we do have a housing crisis , there is no doubt about that , but to say that it 's government created is just another ploy of the Labour Group and the Liberal Democrats who , as Michael has said , are usually incohesion ; that is why we are a small group of ten on Council fighting probably about thirty five . |
| 22 | well that 's quite understandable and we 're talking here about four thousand pounds , it 's a lot of money to anybody is n't it ? |
| 23 | The alliance withdrew all short-range missiles , nuclear artillery-shells and tactical nuclear weapons from US warships last year , leaving only about 1,400 nuclear bombs launched from aircraft . |
| 24 | Whilst I was mooning about singing ‘ I 'm in love with a wonderful guy ’ , he was entertaining just about half the gay population of the town . |
| 25 | Nutritionist Amanda Ursell , of Channel 4 's Food File , writes : JANINE is packing away about 3,600 calories a day . |
| 26 | Above all , once a suitable base has been laid , your garage is up and working within about 48 hours , and often within a day . |
| 27 | ‘ We actually started working together about 18 months ago , before the Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 28 | At this speed — even with two up — it is burning just about two gallons of four star MOGAS per hour ; even cheaper than a J3 Cub . |
| 29 | I was , of course , trailing behind about 10 paces , sulking . |