Example sentences of "[vb past] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 the stake in Carnaud-Metalbox contributed about a quarter of total trading profits of £125 million . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 4 | My team , Guizhou Agricultural College , were beaten 24–16 by the Guizhou University in a game which attracted about a hundred spectators and in which ten tries were scored . |
| 5 | The 1964 survey showed about a third of councillors preferring to deal with the problems of individuals with 43 per cent preferring broad policy matters . |
| 6 | A recent council survey carried out in the Denes showed about a third of dog owners use the bins . |
| 7 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 8 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Erm the guy down who 's just done my my club earned himself eighteen hundred pound in one week and he paid about a hundred a twenty quid out for bed and breakfast . |
| 10 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 11 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 12 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 13 | During his eighteen months at The Hague he collected about a thousand sheets of contemporary wood engravings and etchings — English , French , and American . |
| 14 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 15 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 16 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
| 17 | Right now she needed about a million cups of coffee . |
| 18 | The whole thing started about a year before , when I was seventeen . |
| 19 | Church council treasurer John King said the parish had been unable to fly its St George cross since the lanyard broke about a year ago . |
| 20 | The Ukraine included about a third of the Soviet Union 's most important industries — coal , iron and steel — and some of its richest agricultural land , and it was traditionally the home of some of its strongest political dynasties ( the ‘ Dnepropetrovsk mafia ’ , which included Leonid Brezhnev , was perhaps the best-known example ) . |
| 21 | ‘ They arrested about a hundred people . |
| 22 | During this period , most commodity prices fell about a third , rates of interest dwindled to vanishing point ( as it appeared to those who remembered the inflationary middle decades of the century ) , and banking and commercial disasters multiplied . |
| 23 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 24 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 25 | The result represented a victory for the " moderate " current associated with President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , already apparently favoured by the pre-election screening which eliminated about a third of the prospective candidates — most of them reportedly belonging to the more radical faction . |
| 26 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 27 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 28 | To heat the oven we placed shavings and wood in between and around the tyres which usually took about an hour to heat sufficiently . |
| 29 | It left at half past seven , which meant getting up soon after half past six , and the journey took about an hour . |
| 30 | Took about an hour and a quarter to do but there you go . |