Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Going to be murder about eleven o'clock . |
| 5 | I 've had my rib transfer carriage about nine years and I 've only just discovered that ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 9 | The Foreign Office attracted about eighty-four entries , and the War Department about eighty . |
| 10 | That 's right , Peter he 's er he , he just started work in my department about three or four weeks ago , yes . |
| 11 | If the then bogus rate of exchange is ignored , the 0.85 RM would have cost the soldier about ten old pence . |
| 12 | He had under his command about 2000 men with four light field pieces , four heavier guns and a cumbersome wagontrain , carrying three weeks ’ provisions . |
| 13 | With the rise of palaeontology about 1800 this test became anyway less relevant : we can not supervise the mating of dinosaurs . |
| 14 | The hard core footing alone will automatically take care of most of this aspect , but it is advisable to put a finer layer over it of shingle and then gravel about 5 cm ( 2 in ) deep , and then fill the remaining space with a soil-containing compost of the John Innes No 2 type ( see pages 33–39 ) . |
| 15 | I 've got it on this tape about fifteen times cos everybody supports Arsenal , I said stays in the cup longer . |
| 16 | With him sat two of his colleagues ; leathery , beery-voiced , — total weight about 750 lbs . |
| 17 | The occurrence of IgG anti-lactoferrin was also confirmed by western blotting , revealing a single reaction band with an antigen of molecular weight about 80000 and corresponding to rabbit anti-human leukocyte lactoferrin ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 18 | The first six-wheeled coaches were 30ft 6in long , 7ft 9in wide with a total wheel base of 18ft , the distance from centre to centre of the wheels being 9ft and the weight about 11. ¼ tons . |
| 19 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 20 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 21 | Instead of hanging the whole of the weight , hang only the left hand hook of the weight , placing it on the right hand stitch about two rows from the top of the knitting . |
| 22 | ‘ Micky 's doing Parkinson tonight — the Beeb 's sending a car about six , Micky … ’ |
| 23 | I had parked my car about fifty yards down the road . |
| 24 | Dexter stopped the car about fifty yards down the road from Jim Lancaster 's house . |
| 25 | He wanted me to go round the block and park the car about fifty metres short of the hotel . |
| 26 | Special tax on new cars is halved to five percent , making a new car about four hundred pounds cheaper … |
| 27 | And you had that car about two years did n't you ? |
| 28 | They often had Fudgana and they were often , he hoped , violently sick in the car about half an hour later . |
| 29 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 30 | The stolen van was spotted by a patrol car about 20 miles away in Rowstock . |