Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 2 | Its crust was already thick and rigid enough to hold open huge basins as early as 4.2 x 109 years ago ; and the great floods of mare basalt that filled the basins apparently ceased to erupt about 3.1 x 109 years ago . |
| 3 | We 've only managed to reconstruct about thirty seconds of it , but this at any rate will give the impression of the way it was . ’ |
| 4 | It was estimated that the gang had probably managed to shift about forty tons of high grade cannabis resin into the UK during the four years of operating the Guiding Lights . |
| 5 | He had been very noticeably kind over the past few days : thoughtful , and seeming more mature and sensible , as though the imminence of marriage had indeed begun to bring about that change of which my elders spoke — the settling down , as it was called . |
| 6 | The rapid introduction of microelectronics-based technologies has been widely predicted to bring about profound changes in many areas of life . |
| 7 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |