Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 2 | When they 'd chattered for about ten minutes Walt said : |
| 3 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 4 | The crowd had swollen to about 70 by now , standing in a respectful arc , as if the stage was protected by a sci-fi forcefield . |
| 5 | By the day of the funeral , numbers had swollen to about 80 . |
| 6 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 7 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 8 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 9 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 10 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 11 | East Glasgow 's population had fallen from about 100,000 in 1961 to 45,000 in 1976 . |
| 12 | This old yellow-brown , black-muzzled breed from the Poitou region numbered 728,000 in 1932 , but since 1945 the breed has been declining rapidly and by 1977 there were only 35,000 ; three years later the population had dropped to about 20,000 . |
| 13 | By 1988 this had dropped to about 15 per cent of spruce , and other species such as pine and fir showed similar improvements . |
| 14 | By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total . |
| 15 | By 1989 , this had grown to about 55,000 solicitors and 5000 barristers . |
| 16 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The price of an egg ( about 10 pfennigs before the war ) had risen to about 80 million marks by November 1923 . |
| 18 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 19 | By January 1985 almost 300 heavy goods vehicle movements per 24 hours were recorded ; by 1988 the figure had risen to about 750 . |
| 20 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 21 | Comparing the situation in 1975 with the year of introduction ( generally prewar ) , on average the ratio of benefits to earnings had risen slightly , the duration of benefits had doubled to nearly a year , the delay before eligibility to benefit had halved ( to two days ) , and the period of disqualification ( on account of dismissal for misconduct , for example ) had halved to about three weeks . |
| 22 | From about fifty families in c.1150 , the nobility of the Bordelais had increased to about 200 by 1300 . |
| 23 | Renberg and Hellberg ( 1982 ) , for example , analysed diatom assemblages in lake sediment cores in south-west Sweden and found that since deglaciation of the area about 12,500 years ago , the pH of the lakes had decreased from about 7 to about 6 due to natural long-term oligotrophication and acidification . |
| 24 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 25 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 26 | ‘ Neither the inspections detailed in the approved maintenance schedule nor those recommended by the manufacturer were adequate to detect partial cracks [ which had existed for about 7100 flights ] in the horizontal stabiliser rear spar top chord but would probably have been adequate for the detection of a completely fractured top chord . ’ |
| 27 | Demographic and Health Surveys ( DHS ) Conference sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) in Washington on Aug. 5 was told that fertility in the developing world had declined by about one-third since the late 1960s — from 6.1 to 4.2 births per woman . |