Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 2 | Throughout , exports met only about half of their cost . |
| 3 | Direct taxation — including forced loans and benevolences — produced only about 35 per cent . |
| 4 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 5 | He secretly helped just about everyone in the town . ’ |
| 6 | I mentioned just about , and I got this this erm letter from her . |
| 7 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 8 | I expected just about this . |
| 9 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 10 | Your father passed away about four minutes ago . ’ |
| 11 | Loosing to Coventry and then Charlton in the space of a couple of weeks made just about everyone I knew suicidal — and all cause of Brendan Ormsby failing to kick the ball out into touch on his own dead ball line . |
| 12 | The taxes of 1512–15 mostly went off at half-cock , each successive subsidy being voted to remedy the deficiencies of the last : they added only about £75,000 per annum to the Crown 's revenues . |
| 13 | Product wages probably accelerated only about half as much in the largest firms as in the smallest , thus facilitating the expansion of the former as the latter were knocked out . |
| 14 | It received only about 3,000 returned forms , although there were about 6,000 votes because I understand that there were two votes on each one . |
| 15 | The whole concrete structure was sunk into the ground so it seemed only about four feet high . |
| 16 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 17 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 18 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 19 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 20 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've had a broken nose , black eyes , split lips and banged just about every part of my body , ’ he says . |
| 23 | When I came home about 1.30 a.m. after evening shift , I had the choice of a hot-water bottle or a hot drink . |
| 24 | Bill came home about half past one . |
| 25 | ‘ She came here about three months ago and made your acquaintance , did n't she ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Then you 'll know Heather came here about three months ago . |
| 27 | I got home about nine at night . |
| 28 | and er anyway he got home about half past three so we had to go down to Marks went down to Marks , came back and he bought me a sandwich , I said I 've eaten nothing all day , bought me this sandwich , I was hoping to go away at six |
| 29 | And we were back in Woking by quarter past , twenty past two , we did two shop 's , video shop for Jean , the for Neil and Boot 's and then to sports and then back home , we got home about quarter too four . |
| 30 | The Liberal Party obtained only about 9% of the voters ' support , and Common Wealth merely 1% or 2% . |