Example sentences of "about [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can date the ‘ oxygen revolution ’ — the time when oxygen became an important gas in the Earth 's atmosphere — fairly precisely : it occurred about 410 million years ago . |
| 2 | The latest decision will immediately affect about 35,000 young white men due to begin service next February and more than 15,000 scheduled to start in August . |
| 3 | The latest decision will immediately affect about 35,000 young white men due to begin service next February and more than 15,000 scheduled to start in August . |
| 4 | I have seen the report and am considering its implications carefully , but it is just worth pointing out that in 11 of the past 12 Budgets we have taken steps to encourage employee share ownership to the extent that by the end of March last year about 2.25 million employees had benefited under all employee share schemes and had received options or shares with an initial value of £6.5 billion . |
| 5 | In detail , about 3000 young males join the adult breeding population each year , and thus make up about half the total of breeding males . |
| 6 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 7 | Returning in 1979 to search ice patches near the Belgica as well as the Yamato Mountains , they found about 3000 more specimens ! |
| 8 | By 1980 about 3100 human genes had been distinguished , mostly by biochemical techniques . |
| 9 | Orogenies and accompanying metamorphism of about this age ( that is , about 478 million years B.P. ) have been recognised , for example , in the Massif Central , the Vosges and the Black Forest . |
| 10 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 11 | But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century , but the structure will be different . |
| 12 | Classes were about fifty strong but discipline , we are told , was excellent . |
| 13 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 14 | It 's about fifty six pound a week is n't it ? |
| 15 | What 's Thierry supposed to do , about fifty six ? |
| 16 | In the United Kingdom about fifty six million , in Britain fifty four and a half . |
| 17 | Well , we 've got more police officers now than we 've ever had before , we 're not gon na get any more because , I mean , Essex Police Force , is quite a a rich one but I think , sort of , on recruitment , they 've alre , probably due to get about fifty extra officers but that 's . |
| 18 | Yeah I mean I hope all , I will be able t all I will do is say well we 've got about fifty bloody criteria here . |
| 19 | I think it 's about fifty odd quid to get a remote control set a remote control handset . |
| 20 | For example , the Magistrates ' Association produce suggestions for these many road traffic cases you 've spoken about , which list about fifty odd of the common road traffic offences and make suggestions as to the penalties that might be adopted throughout England and Wales . |
| 21 | You know , I thought he was about fifty odd , but what I must mention Jane , must n't forget in his first race in the three o'clock , he came last on Ruddy Cheek . |
| 22 | about fifty million a year its a hell of a lot . |
| 23 | He gave out about fifty million red tickets . |
| 24 | And the total budget of Oxford City Council is about fifty million . |
| 25 | The sea hitting that was about fifty sixty feet up . |
| 26 | I mean the lowest turn out in any of the constituencies in , in the general election was much higher than the turn out in local government , I think the lowest turn out in any individual constituency was about fifty four percent in the general election . |
| 27 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |
| 28 | But er up the shop , we 've been up there about fifty five years , from the time we give up eight years ago , you see . |
| 29 | You 'd have about , I think it 's about fifty five thousand . |
| 30 | The is about fifty five or over . |