Example sentences of "[noun] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These will be sent to you or your travel agent about two weeks before you travel . |
| 2 | More information about health is set out in our Holiday Planner which will be sent to you or your travel agent about 11 weeks before you travel . |
| 3 | in weights about four or five years |
| 4 | On the north or river side an artificial terrace about 40 ft wide is still visible , as are parts of the revetment wall on the east side , but the west side has been badly damaged by the excavation for the entrance to the quarry . |
| 5 | Going to be murder about eleven o'clock . |
| 6 | My eyes had become accustomed to the now semi-darkness , so I could pick out shapes about seventy-five yards away . |
| 7 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 8 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 9 | Mr Malik used those very words about three times every day . |
| 10 | In the initial review about 70 per cent of the LEAs responded with information , as did nearly all GCE and CSE Boards , the City and Guilds and the RSA . |
| 11 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 12 | In fact the US Agriculture Undersecretary believes that European sugar policies cost less-developed nations about two billion dollars a year in lost export earnings . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 15 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office attracted about eighty-four entries , and the War Department about eighty . |
| 17 | That 's right , Peter he 's er he , he just started work in my department about three or four weeks ago , yes . |
| 18 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 19 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 20 | At 0700 , they plotted a large group of aircraft about 130 miles away and closing fast . |
| 21 | If the then bogus rate of exchange is ignored , the 0.85 RM would have cost the soldier about ten old pence . |
| 22 | No not really my dads about six foot three |
| 23 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 24 | All the lights were white golfball shapes on stands about four feet off the floor . |
| 25 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 26 | It had been synthesized and first tested in animals about 12 years earlier , and rejected , or ignored , twice . |
| 27 | The rest of this chapter provides data about three different dimensions of inequality : sex , ethnic group and social class ; it also gives some information about educational achievement in independent schools , and about the education of children with special needs . |
| 28 | The matter is still up in the air , and congress plans to hold hearing in May on whether EPA manipulated data about 1080 to justify reappraisal of the ban . |
| 29 | He had under his command about 2000 men with four light field pieces , four heavier guns and a cumbersome wagontrain , carrying three weeks ’ provisions . |
| 30 | With the rise of palaeontology about 1800 this test became anyway less relevant : we can not supervise the mating of dinosaurs . |