Example sentences of "and [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles . |
| 2 | There was an upper limit of £50,000 on the amount of aid , and only about 500 projects were approved between 1971 and 1977 ( Marquand 1979 ) . |
| 3 | The Hotel Ritz welcomes guests to a lovely position on the Venetian Arc , near the interesting old town of Caorle and only about 200 yards from a splendid , wide beach which is particularly suitable for families with children . |
| 4 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 5 | We spent days building our fire right opposite and only about fifteen yards from his front door — never was anything so well watched . |
| 6 | reach the stage of proceedings being started , and only about 10 per cent . |
| 7 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 8 | It is almost one degree away from the polar point ; it is 120 light-years away and only about six times as luminous as the Sun , so that it is by no means the equal of the northern hemisphere 's Polaris . |
| 9 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 10 | The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB . |
| 11 | A tank can be maintained without filtration , but more work is involved and only about half the number of fish can be kept . |
| 12 | Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish . |
| 13 | About 80 species of birds worldwide have dispensed with the bothersome business of raising their own young and only about 50 of these are cuckoos of one sort or another . |
| 14 | Over 40 per cent of Preston 's immigrants came from within a 10-mile radius and only about 30 per cent had come in from more than 30 miles away . |
| 15 | This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . |
| 16 | And just about discreet . |
| 17 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 18 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 19 | The second is intensely combative performance art , and just about self-financing . |
| 20 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 21 | This is not for us fishkeepers , so it is fortunate that no persuasion is required to adapt to my typical menu , of beefheart , lancefish , mussels , feeder shrimps , worms and just about any other meat-based food . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ I live in Mottingham , about seven miles from here and also about seven miles from Selhurst Park and Upton Park . |
| 23 | The partners of the firm with which I trained and qualified in South Yorkshire — and probably about 130 years old now — were very much involved in the establishment of the coal mining industry , steel works , newspapers and breweries ( among others ) in that particular area . |
| 24 | This is many orders of magnitude less than that of PSR1957+20 and probably about two orders of magnitude less than our best estimate for that of PSR1744–24A , although is unknown because of gravitational contamination by the cluster . |
| 25 | That proposition presupposes that if you make a reduction in the district figures , then you must have an idea what the district contribution towards the Greater York figure is , er and I find it difficult to see that you can have , if you have a new settlement , if you have a new settlement the C provision for the new settlement floating in this table , erm but can I just say before we adjourn for coffee , that I really would like to have some very firm answers to the questions which are posed under issue two , er and particularly about two D and that is specific guidance on the location of the new settlement . |
| 26 | Er , it 's seven fifty per head coach from Harlow at nine in the morning get back again about five , we intend to beat the rush hour and it 's a conducted tour of Docklands and the city airport with a guide , and also viewing of the visitor 's centre at Docklands , and then about two and a half hours , probably three , to roam around the area yourself . |
| 27 | and then about two ounces of powdered ginger sprinkled over it . |
| 28 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 29 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 30 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |