Example sentences of "about [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just about enough the red from . |
| 2 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
| 3 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
| 4 | Her husband Adrian , a mental nurse , called the midwife from time to time and at about 7.30pm the midwife told the registrar . |
| 5 | This study has been about mainly the Edwardian moment . |
| 6 | It 's about really the tragedy of a man who 's too old to change and too stupid to realize he needs to . |
| 7 | The victim had been put into the lower of two bunk-beds at about 9pm the night before by his father , Mr Alan Robinson , 52 . |
| 8 | One manufacturer declined absolutely to supply other than his own complete clocks and another quoted £3000.00 plus extras and VAT , which was about twice the budget for the entire project ! |
| 9 | Erdinger is by far the biggest wheat-beer producer in Germany ( about twice the size of the other famous specialist , Schneider Weisse ) . |
| 10 | And no longer will they be allowed to take more than 500 roubles a month ( about twice the average monthly wage ) out of their bank accounts . |
| 11 | WHILE the recession has reduced many families ' incomes , school fees have continued to rise at about twice the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | The number of voters missing in the Labour seats held by Ms Diane Abbott and Mr Brian Sedgemore is in each case about twice the size of their majority . |
| 13 | Defendus came up with a projected energy requirement in 2000 of about twice the current consumption , some 40 per cent of the projection made by the LRPPP . |
| 14 | This , or a mini-survey — a modified scheme suggested by the RICS ( Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) — costs about twice the basic building society report and provides concise details on the state of repair and condition of the property you are intending to buy , together with an opinion of its open market value . |
| 15 | This allows him to grow cells at about twice the number per unit volume that will survive in tissue culture — and at just below the density at which they begin to die , poisoned by their own wastes . |
| 16 | Not because they 're tastefully designed , extremely cleanly built and a pleasure to play — which they are — but because both the guitars we 've reviewed have a quality of sound that would rival a number of US-made guitars costing about twice the price . |
| 17 | Standard sealed units cost about twice the price of an equivalent-sized pane of pane of plain glass , and there will probably be no difference in the frame price . |
| 18 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 19 | She discovered there were seventeen pupils , ranging in age from six to twelve , and that they were housed in two so-called dormitories , which were divided by panels into cubicles , each being about twice the area of its narrow iron bed , just enough to hold a chest of drawers and leaving standing space in which to undress . |
| 20 | According to Israel 's Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea : 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US , 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea . |
| 21 | This data takes the form of a cross-section in one year to show the average wage in each of the age groups , so 44 year-old men for example earn about twice the wage paid to men aged 20 . |
| 22 | The total cost of war and defence between 1539 and 1547 was over two million pounds , about twice the yield of forced loans , benevolences , and subsidies . |
| 23 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 24 | ( iii ) Remove the supernatant , except for about twice the volume of the pellet . |
| 25 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 26 | For example , if the proton-neutron mass difference were not about twice the mass of the electron , one would not obtain the couple of hundred or so stable nucleides that make up the elements and are the basis of chemistry and biology . |
| 27 | If they are less than about twice the mass of the sun , they will eventually stop contracting and will settle down to a stable state . |
| 28 | Because the Mariner 10 orbital period is about twice the orbital period of Mercury , and because of Mercury 's own synchronization , much the same hemisphere of Mercury was sunlit during each of the three fly-bys . |
| 29 | The magnetopause is closest to Jupiter on the sunward side but never lies closer to Jupiter than about twice the distance of the orbit of the outermost Galilean satellite . |
| 30 | Was the income generation unit responsible for the policy adopted by New Cross hospital in Wolverhampton and the Mayday hospital in Croydon , whereby bedridden patients must hire a television for a minimum of three days at a cost of £1.95 a day — which is about twice the rate charged by high street television rental companies ? |