Example sentences of "[noun sg] about fifty " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 2 | I had parked my car about fifty yards down the road . |
| 3 | Dexter stopped the car about fifty yards down the road from Jim Lancaster 's house . |
| 4 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 5 | The Mercedes had almost rolled to a halt about fifty yards behind them . |
| 6 | Donald came from an industrial town about fifty miles down the coast . |
| 7 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 8 | Or imagine the scene at a Labour Conference about fifty years ago if a certain Oswald Mosley had turned up to see his former party colleagues . |
| 9 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 10 | That lady is taking her children to see their grandmother who lives in another forest about fifty miles away . |
| 11 | The conical roof of the summer-house showed above a high hedge about fifty yards down the bank , so forcing himself to act casually , he began to stroll towards it . |
| 12 | He swerved across the road between my mini and the car behind without touching either of us , and stopped his unharmed car on our grass verge about fifty feet away . |
| 13 | Seasoned balsa has density of five to ten pounds per cubic foot ( s.g. 0.1 ) , spruce around thirty ( 0.45 ) , oak about fifty ( 0.7 ) and lignum vitae between seventy and eighty ( 1.1 ) . |
| 14 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 15 | I was just getting back into the driving seat when there was a shout and a figure emerged from the gully about fifty metres above me . |
| 16 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 17 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 18 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 19 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
| 20 | William Darling was a thin , strong man about fifty years old . |
| 21 | And these this is er a private car going along the road about fifty miles an hour going down towards Dover . |
| 22 | For example , the Magistrates ' Association produce suggestions for these many road traffic cases you 've spoken about , which list about fifty odd of the common road traffic offences and make suggestions as to the penalties that might be adopted throughout England and Wales . |