Example sentences of "the [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 2 | The odd German shell was bursting in the field about two hundred yards away from the bridge , far enough not to do any harm , except possibly to the cattle . |
| 3 | By now the Germans were everywhere : on the Via Emilia , on the Strada della Cisa , which was a vital route of communication across the Apennines into Tuscany , and in the provinces of Parma , Reggio Emilia and Bologna , where there was a division of the Wehrmacht about 20,000 strong . |
| 4 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
| 5 | Jeanie moaning , Lily weeing , she 's got a water infection so she 's been about to the loo about five thousand times |
| 6 | Meanwhile , cut the steak into slivers , ½&in wide by 1&in , as thinly as possible — this is more easily done if the meat is put into the freezer about 30 minutes before being cut . |
| 7 | Cregeen began work on the dictionary about 1814 , collecting words from the Manx Bible ( 1770–5 ) , for which he often gave references , and from other printed sources , but also gathering material , words , phrases , scraps of traditional verse , and proverbs , from current usage . |
| 8 | If the then bogus rate of exchange is ignored , the 0.85 RM would have cost the soldier about ten old pence . |
| 9 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 10 | The first six-wheeled coaches were 30ft 6in long , 7ft 9in wide with a total wheel base of 18ft , the distance from centre to centre of the wheels being 9ft and the weight about 11. ¼ tons . |
| 11 | The square toe-cap of his Lundhag caught in the snow about two metres down . |
| 12 | There was a cry to halt , then they opened fire , but he was just outside their range ; bullets kicked up the snow about five yards away to his left . |
| 13 | A party at Lechlade earlier this month cost the force about seventy-five thousand pounds to police , equivalent to the cost of two murder investigations . |
| 14 | A party at Lechlade earlier this month cost the force about seventy-five thousand pounds to police , equivalent to the cost of two murder investigations . |
| 15 | Dexter stopped the car about fifty yards down the road from Jim Lancaster 's house . |
| 16 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 17 | They often had Fudgana and they were often , he hoped , violently sick in the car about half an hour later . |
| 18 | The geologists suggest they coalesced and collided with the coast about 55 million years ago , adding large parts of the San Francisco Bay region to the landscape . |
| 19 | His family name derives from the village of Branscombe on the coast about sixteen miles east of Exeter , but of his parentage we know nothing . |
| 20 | ‘ So you left the Club about ten past eight , went home , found all was well , and went straight back ? ’ |
| 21 | I was going to draw the curtains , upstairs in the bedroom about ten minutes after you dropped me off here . |
| 22 | I 'd say oh yes , you know but , still could n't get me to go in the Guild and er , it was so strange that the , I ca n't remember , I think I 've been in the Guild about twenty-five years so you 'll have to do your own little sum . |
| 23 | North-westerly the level was taken along the vein about 110 fathoms and was estimated 30 ft. from the intended connection with the sump descending from Taylor 's Level 102 ft. above . |
| 24 | Well it sounded so simple when he said it over the telephone about two months ago . |
| 25 | The grass was about seven metres high , and the corn about thirteen metres high . |
| 26 | With the girl about fourteen ? |
| 27 | There was somebody working here called er Julian , he was fucking coming , coming out the pub about half past twelve , coming back in about six o'clock and then working on three |
| 28 | A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall . |
| 29 | I mean I think we arrived at the bottom about six o'clock |
| 30 | The AA says that since the law about 85 to 95 per cent of people are wearing seat-belts . |