Example sentences of "[verb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 2 | That 's what you want really , you want about a thousand of them now |
| 3 | Soon he discovers that of the seventeen people present , thirteen are students ( representing about a quarter of those enrolled on the scheme ) , two are support workers and two are full-time tutors . |
| 4 | The public have written thirty letters , representing about a thousand people , living in all corners of have written and recommended refusal . |
| 5 | William and his assistants decorated about a dozen surviving manuscripts . |
| 6 | In 1991 the stake in Carnaud-Metalbox contributed about a quarter of total trading profits of £125 million . |
| 7 | The two enclaves did not share a common border , but together occupied about a third of Croatian territory and included 300,000 people . |
| 8 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 9 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 10 | According to the Times , First Peson is to be headed by Rosing , has about a dozen employees , and is presently in process of moving into new premises in Palo Alto . |
| 11 | Mr Major has about a year to display it . |
| 12 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 13 | Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base . |
| 14 | The Labour party is now divided between reformers and abolitionists , the latter now numbering about a quarter of all Labour MPs . |
| 15 | This is made worse by the fact that few butchers hang their lamb these days , despite the fact that it only needs about a week to bring on the flavour . |
| 16 | As a result , Europe 's share of the total world population does not vary greatly between then and 1945 : it fell slightly , but continued to provide about a quarter of the world 's people . |
| 17 | Moreover , using near-infrared imaging spectroscopy , the central star cluster was found to contain about a dozen HeI emission-line stars within 12 ( 0.5pc ) of Sgr A. These stars have been suggested to be either blue supergiants or Wolf-Rayet-like stars with heavy mass loss ( 10 -5 –10 -4 M and ; yr -1 ) , and outflow velocities 1,000kms -1 ; their presence has been taken as evidence for recent star formation . |
| 18 | The car parked about a hundred yards from the loch and two men , clad in town clothes , got out and ambled over : ‘ Any luck ? ’ they inquired . |
| 19 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 20 | Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words . |
| 21 | Situated 2,300 metres above sea , the air contains about a third the amount of oxygen of that at sea level . |
| 22 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 23 | say about a hundred million pound a year would you say that ? |
| 24 | Cos he lives about a quarter of a mile away from the school . |
| 25 | By 1978 , 1500 such villages had been created incorporating about a million people . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 27 | I would need about a quarter of the boxes , but I ca n't be sure where he is going to land . |
| 28 | There will be no climbing or hill-walking involved and you 'll only need about an hour to complete it and hand in your finished Puzzle . |
| 29 | The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes about a third of some 3,000 annual meningitis cases and an estimated 250 deaths in England and Wales . |
| 30 | It is , it is , it 's re-opened about a week ago , having been shut for re-doing . |