Example sentences of "and [noun] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 2 | He evidently established a bindery and bookshop about 1750 , and its fame was widespread enough to be noted in his premature obituary in the Gentleman 's Magazine of March 1784 ( corrected in the April issue ) . |
| 3 | One was shot at Horsham in 1849 , probably in July ; one was shot between Steyning and Henfield about 30 September 1934 ; one was seen at Brighton on 29 April 1951 . |
| 4 | She reflected indignantly that he 'd already eaten a substantial helping of bacon and eggs about three o'clock that morning . |
| 5 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 6 | They checked the harness and cord about five times , very reassuring , then stamped my hand with ‘ checked ’ . |
| 7 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 8 | Cox , of course , had to make retrospective IQ estimates for her subjects but these are probably fairly accurate and average about 160 , with a range overlapping considerably with that actually found in the gifted children . |
| 9 | Very recently , not so long ago , I saw on programme on India , in in one of the sweat-shops , you saw young children , boys and girls about twelve years old , on their hands and knees making matches , and a man walking down the centre with a stick . |
| 10 | I was twelve and Freddie about fifteen . |
| 11 | It has a permanent stock of about 10,000 pipes of wines and ships about fifty per cent of the island 's wine exports . |
| 12 | The maximum height of barchans is about 30 metres ( loo ft ) and their maximum width and length about 400 metres ( 1300 ft ) . |
| 13 | " subscribed by the Maior of Stockport and some Aldermen and others about 12 in number . " |
| 14 | The tower was about 10 metres high and had solid masonry of brick and stone about 2 metres thick . |
| 15 | The Metropolitan 's first move in this case was to invoke the statute of limitations to block Turkey 's demand for the return of antiquities acquired by the museum through gifts and purchases about 20 years ago . |
| 16 | It took Paul , Kate , Helen and Michael about half an hour to wolf down the lot . |
| 17 | Thus the government announced sweeping increases in taxes and cuts in the public sector ; it aimed to scrap all the remaining state subsidies , sell off state assets , and fire about 80,000 workers ( a small proportion of public employees ) . |