Example sentences of "about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 2 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 3 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 4 | For about a week new blisters will appear . |
| 5 | About a second before a subject moves a part of his body , a slow negative shift in the electrical potential generated by the brain begins . |
| 6 | Unless you are thinking of doing La Demande , put away your chocks and Friends and just take about a dozen quick-draws . |
| 7 | More than 170 Consort hotels welcome dogs , with about a third offering something a bit special — Bona-Fido — which operates a bit like the AA 's rating , but with stars switched for bones . |
| 8 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 9 | Two policemen and about a dozen supporters were injured . |
| 10 | The group has dominant market share down-under , taking about a third of Australia 's life insurance business , and needs to look beyond its local market for opportunities . |
| 11 | Information Consulting , while independent , was formed about a year ago by five former Arthur Andersen partners with financial backing from Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising and consultancy group . |
| 12 | Rechem has responded with a rather desperate open-door policy aimed at soothing fears , and more recently by issuing about a dozen writs against the fiercest critics . |
| 13 | Though 130,000 passports represent only about a quarter of Macao 's population , most recipients are the professionals and businessmen who make up the backbone of the enclave economy . |
| 14 | The society raises about £250,000 a year from membership contributions — about a third of its annual income . |
| 15 | SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday . |
| 16 | He believes that about a million new households will form in the South-east by 2001 , most of them the sons and daughters and new elderly of the region itself . |
| 17 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 18 | In about a year 's time , the IBA will be no longer , and the regulation of radio passes to the Radio Authority . |
| 19 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 20 | The information from official sources serves to confirm what loyalist paramilitaries said in August — that a partial clampdown had taken place about a year ago . |
| 21 | About a third of those interviewed said they had run away because of ‘ problems at home ’ . |
| 22 | Lisbon police said about a third of the 121 sailors detained were British . |
| 23 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 24 | ‘ The only problem is it 's about a year too soon for us . |
| 25 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 26 | About a hundred yards from the village we came under automatic fire from somewhere on our left , and continued the rest of the way walking in the ditch . |
| 27 | A Commando opened the gates and Lovat entered , followed closely by about a dozen Commandos . |
| 28 | Now the German barrage seemed to be concentrating on the edge of the wood about a hundred and fifty yards to our left . |
| 29 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |
| 30 | About a hundred yards along the path I could see guns that were dug in fairly close together . |