Example sentences of "at about " in BNC.
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| 1 | These wines , priced at about £35 a case , would make superior house selections . |
| 2 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a boat-train that goes at about half-nine , I think . ’ |
| 4 | At about 1.40pm cars started to appear and people were seen walking up the road . |
| 5 | A three-tiered espalier stands at about 4ft ; five tiers will reach around 7ft . |
| 6 | At about 1,000 feet you should put away the maps , select a good field and check it for slopes and surface etc . |
| 7 | At about 800 feet AGL , re-check your position to the side of the field , recheck for obstructions , choose the ‘ turn in ’ position and prepare for landing . |
| 8 | At about seven months of age the average baby is quite skilled at removing obstacles to prehension ; is well able , for example , to pull a cushion away to reach a rattle behind it . |
| 9 | At about high noon we arrived at Coney Island and approached the boardwalk . |
| 10 | Much of this was ‘ own label ’ merchandise of course , but occasionally one would come across a familiar branded item , at about half the price of those at home . |
| 11 | To make up these leaf forms , each motif is prepared by first cutting out two rectangles of suitable size having the grain running obliquely at about 45° which are then edge-jointed and taped together . |
| 12 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |
| 13 | But a well-built version cost over £100 , and one at about £50 seemed far too rickety . |
| 14 | At about 2° above absolute zero — 2K — liquid helium develops the peculiar ability to flow through tiny holes without friction . |
| 15 | In the UK this will be at about 67° to the horizontal , but it is not critical , as the maximum is quite broad and not very sensitive to angle . |
| 16 | Cable code was faster , operating at about 54 words/min , or 20BAud . |
| 17 | A FUND standing at about £200,000 which was raised to give aid and comfort to homecoming British prisoners after the Second World War is alleged to be growing in direct proportion to the number of old soldiers dying without ever seeing a penny of it . |
| 18 | They are found at about 0.05 parts per million in Northern Europe . |
| 19 | The Department of the Environment admits it is almost impossible to recruit the calibre of inspectors it wants on salaries starting at about £15,000 . |
| 20 | Mr Hislop said a fund to raise money from readers stood at about £100,000 . |
| 21 | Over the same period university expenditure , where more research is undertaken , was fairly constant at about £5,200 per student . |
| 22 | After the Bank 's signal to the money markets at about 2pm yesterday , Barclays Bank announced an increase in its base rate , and was quickly followed by the other clearing banks . |
| 23 | In some quarters the combined value is now put at about £225m . |
| 24 | Unit is expected to finance the deal with a combination of cash and shares , which last week closed 1p lower at 145p , valuing the company at about £8m . |
| 25 | ‘ We needed a miracle , and we got one , ’ said Mr Glennie , whose yacht , valued at about £87,000 and uninsured , represented everything he owned . |
| 26 | Police say that at about 11am a man reported at the Green Garage service station that his car had broken down nearby . |
| 27 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 28 | The value of the discounts works out at about 8 per cent of the sum invested . |
| 29 | Take Britain 's case with a deficit running at about £20bn a year . |
| 30 | Compensation is paid to the producer , a total of £524,008 so far , which works out at about 78p a bird and is far from adequate , according the egg producers ' association . |