Example sentences of "[vb base] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what you want really , you want about a thousand of them now |
| 2 | say about a hundred million pound a year would you say that ? |
| 3 | Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells , then leave to come up to room temperature . |
| 4 | They have been loyal with their money , as well as their feelings , to the 10m who still live in Greece ; their remittances still cover about a sixth of the trade gap ( see table 4 on next page ) . |
| 5 | The kind that cost about a hundred dollars on the black market . |
| 6 | there 's no extra labour , I normally charge about a hundred and thirty pound for each wing , that 's two hundred and sixty er eighty pound for the bonnet , well about a hundred pound for the bonnet , that 's three hundred and sixty then er , forty five quid for the slam pan , that 's it |
| 7 | The ladies , who run about a third of the distance of the men 's race and carry twenty kilo sacks , can win similar prizes , a trophy , voucher , money and goblets instead of tankards . |
| 8 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 9 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 10 | mix all three of these equal amounts and fill about a tenth of the bottle . |
| 11 | space actually , I mean , you get about a hundred people on here , it 's , it 's , it 's alright . |
| 12 | They get about a hu , they get about a hundred a day |
| 13 | They get about a hu , they get about a hundred a day |
| 14 | The songs are carefully arranged , played with the anonymous perfection we 've come to expect from people like the Floyd , and last about a quarter of an hour . |
| 15 | WHAT : Visits may be weekly or fortnightly and last about an hour , on a one-to-one basis in the prisoner 's cell ; all conversations are confidential . |
| 16 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 17 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 18 | Erm yeah I suppose about an hour , zing zing zing zing , it 's got a really , it 's got some really gay carols in . |
| 19 | You get paid for playing er , you do n't ha or you have very few scores , you do n't have line-outs and basically you tackle about a hundred million times a game . |
| 20 | The twin drawbridges , or ‘ bascules ’ , forming the central section of the roadway , weigh about a thousand tons each , and can be raised in a minute and a half to allow large vessels to pass through . |
| 21 | Today , they constitute about a third of the forests of the world . |
| 22 | We live about an hour 's drive away from Baldersdale and every weekend we would scour the ‘ Property for Sale ’ columns of the local newspapers . |
| 23 | The former basic industries — mining , agriculture , construction and manufacturing — now employ about a third of the total workforce . |
| 24 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 25 | you do about a quarter . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I do n't think they have n't confirmed as they usua most organizations usually do about a week beforehand er by phone , to make sure it 's alright , and I 've lost their letter . |
| 27 | Unless you are thinking of doing La Demande , put away your chocks and Friends and just take about a dozen quick-draws . |
| 28 | This service often involves breaking security systems , most of which take about a minute to get through . |
| 29 | ‘ Some take a month to complete and some only take about a week , but it 's very difficult to put a time on paintings . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |