Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fertiliser is used either in a slow release form , or is added about six weeks after the clover is established , continuing until the nutrient cycle is secure . |
| 2 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 3 | High mountains border the north coast , and spaced about eight miles apart are the hamlets of Çokertme , Ören and Akbuk , each in a dramatic setting and each with a restaurant . |
| 4 | They should be between 23 and 30 cm ( 9–12 in ) long , with the lower leaves removed , and then buried for up to between half and two-thirds their length in a sheltered bed or border , spaced about 15 cm ( 6in ) apart . |
| 5 | The original CED typesetting tape occupied about 27 MBytes . |
| 6 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 7 | ( By way of illustration , in the mid-1980s the catalogue of IBM 's mainframe-computer manuals occupied about three hundred pages with about fifty titles per page . ) |
| 8 | Ultimate has installed about 50 systems to date in the Commonwealth of Independent States ; Almazjuvelir Export can pay in hard currency because it exports over $1,000m annually in jewellery , precious metals and gemstones and holds exclusive rights to manufacture reproductions of the Faberge eggs . |
| 9 | The girl looked about sixteen and recently aware of her considerable attractions . |
| 10 | A sleepy anaesthetist arrived — looked about 18 years old — a little disconcerting . |
| 11 | She was only seventeen and looked about twelve . |
| 12 | He had red hair and looked about two years older than me . |
| 13 | The new chap looked about eight years old , but then , so did William . |
| 14 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 15 | The 1886 Soiree in Newton school attracted about 220 people when an agent from the Scottish Temperance League gave a magic lantern show . |
| 16 | The 1886 Soiree in Newton school attracted about 220 people when an agent from the Scottish Temperance League gave a magic lantern show . |
| 17 | He said the meeting , which had also been attended by the local policeman , Constable Mike Munro , had attracted about 20 villagers . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office attracted about eighty-four entries , and the War Department about eighty . |
| 19 | 200 to 300 students had visited the Chaplaincy on the open day for prospective students and a ‘ welcome night ’ by the Catholic Chaplaincy attracted about 50 students . |
| 20 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |
| 21 | Liver if Liverpool scored off all their chances and if Genoa theirs Liverpool would have won about twenty to four . |
| 22 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 23 | A large grey Volkswagen van was parked about four houses along the street . |
| 24 | They had n't cared to join the small crowd of spectators in the old stand , but had remained in the car parked about twenty-five yards behind one of the goals . |
| 25 | Rocky O'Rourke , in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler , was parked about twenty yards north of the gates . |
| 26 | It 's parked about ten yards away from the pub , on the left . |
| 27 | A battery of stamps consisted usually of four wooden baulks placed vertically , riding in guides , each shod with heavy iron heads which were lifted alternately by means of cams on a revolving axle , acting upon lifters or tappets affixed to the sliding baulks , The stamps were raised and dropped about 12 inches , at a rate best able to cope with the material fed . |
| 28 | Those were the days when a farm worker earned about thirty shillings a week , and three pounds was quite a good wage , so it is not surprising that a Saturday afternoon at the cinema cost tuppence , and four different sweets could be bought for a penny . |
| 29 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 30 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |