Example sentences of "a [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not long before a low whistle called us to where Valdemar stood , and he pointed : on a branch about six metres above us sat one of the most magnificent birds I had ever seen . |
| 2 | This new method was exemplified to clone PCR-fragments obtained from a DNA-region about 8.4 kb upstream of the trpGDC -cluster of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 leading to the identification of pyrG which encodes a CTP-synthase ( 6 ) . |
| 3 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 4 | It 's a cottage about four miles from here . |
| 5 | These were made into a parcel about six feet long , covered in a tarpaulin and wheeled on a hand cart to Looe Station . |
| 6 | ‘ The facts are , George , that nobody gives a toss about that second rate little country ! ’ |
| 7 | The first is taken from Mark 's Gospel and involves the cure of a single leper ; the second is from his own source and is a story about ten lepers. –any scholars believe that the story of the ten lepers is a development of the miracle of the one leper . |
| 8 | It 's tough , I do n't know erm take , take a look about four lines above . |
| 9 | The facts as related by the Rose-Noelle 's crew are that the 41-foot trimaran left Picton , on New Zealand 's South Island , for Tonga on 1 June and capsized in a storm about 125 miles off the North Island on 4 June . |
| 10 | AMNESTY members will receive £5.00 off top price tickets for any Monday-to-Thursday performance of Someone Who 'll Watch Over Me , a play about three Beirut hostages by Frank McGuinness . |
| 11 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here . |
| 13 | [ Estimates based on the proportion of owned dwellings give a figure about 3 percentage points higher than estimates based on the number of owner households from sources such as the General Household Survey . ] |
| 14 | At a deliberate talking speed that takes a card about 12 inches ( 30 cm ) long . |
| 15 | About ½ inch ( 1.5cm ) or a fraction more below the selected bud , make a cut about ⅛ inch ( 0.3cm ) deep and sloping downwards a little as shown in Figure 17 . |
| 16 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 17 | A natter about ten I 'd expect wo n't it next week ? |
| 18 | ‘ Micky 's doing Parkinson tonight — the Beeb 's sending a car about six , Micky … ’ |
| 19 | A strange apparition was witnessed by a lady about two years ago on a section of track between Barking and Upminster in Essex . |
| 20 | ‘ It was done on a manual Adler typewriter , a machine about ten years old . |
| 21 | You can see that there may be a compositional change at about 300 km depth , and there may be a core about 170 to 450 km radius . |
| 22 | GEOFF : ‘ I was in a bar about six months ago , and had an off-the-shoulder top on . |
| 23 | Remove the shoot tip to leave a cutting about 9 inches ( 23cm ) long , and then trim away the lower leaves to leave only the top two . |
| 24 | There 's a pub about four streets away from us where I used to go with my dad . |
| 25 | The Mercedes had almost rolled to a halt about fifty yards behind them . |
| 26 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 27 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 28 | It was a photograph of a portrait by Van Dyck — the portrait of a boy about fifteen — a young Prince Ruprecht von der Pfaltz of Bavaria and he was so like Lionel that it brought one 's heart into one 's mouth . |
| 29 | ‘ Including a senior , a boy about seventeen , who was probably subjecting his teacher to a certain amount of needling ? ’ |
| 30 | Louise : It 's a village about two and a half miles out of town . |