Example sentences of "in [noun sg] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 2 | In theory , 1.2 lb ( 0.54 kg ) of common salt is required per pound of hardness ( as CaC03 ) but in practice about three times this amount or more is employed . |
| 3 | If you 've got something that 's crying out in comparison about two labourers or two women or whatever . |
| 4 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 5 | She was n't actually there in nineteen twelve , she was still an undergraduate in nineteen twelve , but she became active in government about nineteen seventeen and , and her memories are very vivid . |
| 6 | So I was in bed about eleven , instead of two in the morning . |
| 7 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 8 | You were in bed about half ten last week . |
| 9 | Three US marines were killed ( on Aug. 9 and 16 ) in helicopter and plane crashes in the exercises , which took place on Aug. 3-17 and involved in total about 5,000 US troops . |
| 10 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 11 | It was oblong in form about 36 feet in length and about 16 feet in width , and two storeys high . |
| 12 | er , er , something about he , in hospital about eight weeks |
| 13 | Instead he became an alcoholic ( a ‘ half-alcoholic ’ he preferred to call it ) who required to dry-out in hospital about 50 times over a 25-year period . |
| 14 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
| 15 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 16 | Antisemitism was not the creation of the nineteenth century but it revived in intensity about 1880 . |
| 17 | First built in stone about 1180 , with later additions in the 13th century , the name of this Norman castle probably derives from the white plaster which once covered its walls . |
| 18 | The child ( 14 ) : Ishmael was by now in fact about 16 . |
| 19 | In fact about 8 p.c. of the value of all management buy-outs supported by venture capitalists last year were in Scotland , matching the country 's contribution to GDP . |
| 20 | Police injuries , 243 in August 1977 ( according to Merlyn Rees , Home Secretary ) , continually made headlines but in fact about three times as many pickets were injured . |
| 21 | On the 1st May an odd selection of individuals , myself included , set out to travel not only South to Totnes Castle , but also back in time about 530 years . |
| 22 | ‘ What existed was a manuscript he began in prison about twenty years ago , ’ Gordon says . |