Example sentences of "at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you are here , on the summit , at 9,400 feet , well above the permanent snow line in the Pyrenees , which starts at about 8,500 feet , there is seldom any snow in the summer , because the sides of the mountain are too steep , especially on the north side , to keep it in place . |
| 2 | But Ryton , which makes the Peugeot 405 , saw its output remain virtually unchanged at about 88,000 vehicles . |
| 3 | Business sources put the toll at about 20. — AP . |
| 4 | Those who opted for the unit trust — the South and East Asia Growth Trust — would have been able to realise their holdings for cash at about 98 per cent of Drayton Asia . |
| 5 | A house mouse can run at 13 km/h , larger species somewhat faster until the optimum size for -running is reached at about 120 kg . |
| 6 | During the early 1890s numbers settled at about 120 , and academic progress was maintained . " |
| 7 | Even when complex formulae are used it has proved possible to find two , which give extremely good fits to the natural curve , but provide base levels differing by about 60 m ( almost 200 ft ) for a base level at about 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( Miller , 1939 ) . |
| 8 | At about 17.30 , Chester came under heavy fire and all the gun crew except Cornwell were killed . |
| 9 | At about 1600 hours an ambulance arrived outside the facility , its blue light flashing . |
| 10 | Basaltic rocks melt at about 1,100 degrees C , while granitic rocks melt at only about 650–700 degrees C , so magmas of granitic composition are many times more viscous than basaltic ones . |
| 11 | It has been shown conclusively in the south-east of England that a marked terrace of early Pleistocene age with beach deposits in some localities occurs at about 195 m ( 650 ft ) OD ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1955 ) . |
| 12 | 1986 ) have reported the average age of clients in care at about 83 years . |
| 13 | In the construction of a marriage table , notice that not all of the radix cohort will marry and that a marriage table can stop at about 55 years ( certainly for first marriages ) since the marriage probability has become negligible by that age . |
| 14 | At about 10.45 he had met William Day , who had also been working late , and they had travelled together to their appropriate homes , the houses being a stone 's throw from each other . |
| 15 | At about 10.45 a.m. on Sunday morning , he called a taxi . |
| 16 | At about 4.55 they came quietly and nervously from each community — right up to where the inspector and I stood . |
| 17 | You also need to allow headroom by leaving a little space between the top edge of the frame and the subject 's head , except for big c.lose-ups when the rule is to set the head so that the eyes come at about two-thirds of the height of the picture . |
| 18 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 19 | Isa , the chairman of the local Assembly executive committee , began proceedings at about 5.30 p.m. ; at sunset the audience moved to the east end of the playground and , the glowing sky colouring their white clothes , said their prayers ; at about 7.30 Isa adjourned the meeting . |
| 20 | The following morning , 19 April , at about 7.30 a.m. , Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ made their way to the dockyard where Crabb changed into his diving gear and , with the aid of some officers from NID , entered the water near the south-west jetty . |
| 21 | The large hut — used to store scaffolding equipment — in Warham Road , Dovercourt , caught fire at about 7.30 pm on Monday . |
| 22 | I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework . |
| 23 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 24 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |
| 25 | We start off at about 85 per cent maximum speed . |
| 26 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 27 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
| 29 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 30 | After a good breakfast at about eight o'clock , I informed the switchboard staff that I was leaving . |