Example sentences of "and [verb] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economists had a tremendous year erm , really bucking the trend and contributing about five million pounds to er , F T's er , associates profits . |
| 2 | He weighed 196lb and , when wishing to indulge in a man-to-man talk ( I say man-to-man because I became convinced he did n't believe he was a dog at all ) he would rear up and rest his forepaws on my shoulders and look down into my eyes , which are a rather attractive dark brown and reside about five feet two inches above sea level . |
| 3 | The USSR employs about five times as many farm workers as the US and invests about five times as much as does US farming annually , yet Soviet output is only 80 per cent that of the U S A. Again like any bureaucratic system of production , risk-taking is never rewarded and hence there is no premium put on innovation . |
| 4 | they shoot it and they will then arrange to er edit it and produce about five thousand |
| 5 | And we 'd be pouting away and arriving about five minutes past one and then we 'd be in for trouble then . |
| 6 | On Saturday , early afternoon , he 'd gone into the city to get his watch repaired and returned about five o'clock . |