Example sentences of "about [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What er more staff would mean is that more visits can be made to more HMO 's to put more of the problems right ; it 's , it 's just about that simple . |
| 2 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 3 | Du n no , about half eight . |
| 4 | four until about half eight tomorrow night I 'm on my feet |
| 5 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 6 | Wake me up about half eight . |
| 7 | Well Ray 's coming about half eleven he said . |
| 8 | About half eleven , eleven thirty six . |
| 9 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |
| 10 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 11 | He went to sleep about half eleven . |
| 12 | But I 'm no , I 'm in the house like , but I tho , I do n't go to my bed till about half eleven twelve . |
| 13 | About half eleven . |
| 14 | No it was turned that , about half eleven |
| 15 | Power stations in the region were ordered to reduce their output to about half normal levels , with electricity imported from elsewhere in eastern Europe to meet demand . |
| 16 | An astronomic figure , when you consider that sugar , for instance , provides , weight for weight , only about half that number of calories , and that potatoes contain only 25 calories an ounce . |
| 17 | Prices run at about £1 per litre of capacity , about half that for non-budget sacks . |
| 18 | Their deep slow wave sleep has , however , reduced to a quarter of the amount taken by the toddler , about half that of a twenty-year-old . |
| 19 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 20 | The rate seems to have been about half that of an ordinary return and was perhaps a day ticket , although no mention of that condition is made . |
| 21 | About half that could be saved if Trident were cancelled now . |
| 22 | The deficit of DKr2,800 million would be about half that for the previous year . |
| 23 | The speed skaters go about half that speed , but danger slides at you from every corner . |
| 24 | About half that money will go to Mansfield Town , under a deal that Swindon 's then manager Lou Macari agreed with them when he bought Calderwood 8 years ago . |
| 25 | About half that figure is shipped to Western Europe , mainly Spain , Portugal , France and Finland . |
| 26 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 27 | With [ ( TA ) 5 GC(TA) 5 ] 2 ( Figures 1c and 2c ) each of the ApT sites is cut with equal efficiency , about half that at the two GC sites . |
| 28 | The offtake stations supply gas into the Regional transmission System which operates at about 35 bar — about half that of the National Transmission System . |
| 29 | She said sh sh sh she said she 'd be here about half two . |
| 30 | If if not , you supposed to record , they 're supposed to be , in fact , two minutes , and I could n't read , 'cos two minutes is about half two sides of of transcript , so that 's all we need really . |