Example sentences of "[noun sg] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 2 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 3 | The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it . |
| 4 | You have a rival about a hundred yards from your door — and bang on Oxford Street , unlike the Rose Bowl . |
| 5 | to run a football club about a hundred million a year ? |
| 6 | Bulwark was commissioned in January 1960 and stationed with her Commando embarked at Singapore ; Albion followed as the second Commando Carrier about a year later ; construction of six Army-owned Landing Ships Logistic ( LSLs ) was authorised in August 1960 ; the Assault Ships Fearless and Intrepid were ordered in 1961 and 1962 ; and design work was started in December 1961 on the next generation of aircraft carriers , the first of which was code-named CVA 01 . |
| 7 | In the TIMI 2B study about a quarter of the patients assigned to conservative strategy required angiography and further intervention . |
| 8 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 9 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 10 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 11 | The House debated the issue about a year ago and reached the conclusion , on a free vote , that that issue was not the highest priority call on the NHS budget . |
| 12 | Now the German barrage seemed to be concentrating on the edge of the wood about a hundred and fifty yards to our left . |
| 13 | I du n no if Elliott were , but he was off work about a week so |
| 14 | This was also the case with the housekeeper , Elizabeth Hinson , who had looked after the Vicarage and who died in a nursing home about a year before these lines were written . |
| 15 | Eventually , he found it , lying down on the Kālādika — an open , grassy plateau about a quarter of a mile outside the village — the nearest place where the cattle were taken to graze . |
| 16 | White 's Irish impressions are to be found in The Godstone and the Blackymor ( 1959 ) , illustrated by Edward Ardizzone , and The Elephant and the Kangaroo ( 1948 ) , a fantasy about a second flood , with White as Noah . |
| 17 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 18 | Just before the war about a hundred thousand passengers flew from Britain to the Continent and they were mostly businessmen , not tourists . |
| 19 | ‘ One person , ’ he said , looking up , ‘ bought both poisons in that jar about a week ago , as well as a rare odourless potion which can stop the heart but not be traced . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , I have one question , speaking of the AIDS Officer , I know that the previous AIDS Officer left her post about a week ago . |
| 21 | Using a sharp knife , cut a ‘ waist ’ into the cake about a third of the way up . |
| 22 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 23 | I do not think I would be out of order in recalling a private conversation with the Secretary of State for Transport about a year ago on this subject . |
| 24 | The information from official sources serves to confirm what loyalist paramilitaries said in August — that a partial clampdown had taken place about a year ago . |
| 25 | Dreadnought held on to third place about a second or so behind Strega and Rare Bear . |
| 26 | The prospectus will be released in the last week of May by brokers , Allied Provincial Securities Ltd , and the share placing should take place about a week to 10 days later . |
| 27 | Diarrhoea occurs coincident with emergence about a week after primary infection and up to one year after reinfection . |
| 28 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 29 | If they all worked , every golfer would be driving the ball about a quarter of a mile . |
| 30 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |