Example sentences of "[subord] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 2 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 3 | ‘ They never seem to last more than about a week . ’ |
| 4 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 5 | Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour . |
| 6 | Although about a hundred rugby balls went into the sea on game days none were ever seen floating on the water for long . |
| 7 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 8 | Erm , let's cover one or two things , because about a year ago , in two articles in the local use , sorry who was it ? allowed to sell the accumulated fund from council house sales , on building new houses , and two weeks later the deputy leader of the council , argued that he needed that money invested because the council could n't exist without the interest on it . |
| 9 | It would be more accurate to say that very few spent less than seven or eight years in the trade , the majority spent at least 10–12 years , while about a fifth remained in the trade for life . |
| 10 | Rather , they would prefer to struggle on , in charge of a minority government , in the hope that the economy will recover and they can reap the benefits at a second election after about a year — as Labour did in 1974 . |
| 11 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 12 | After about a year , however , for some reason he sold the house again . |
| 13 | Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years . |
| 14 | Once farrowed , sows stay with their litter for several days , then begin to leave the nest after about a week as the piglets grow larger and more troublesome . |
| 15 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
| 16 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 17 | After about a week they can be given brine shrimp nauplii and microworm , and will also peck at the food offered to the adults . |
| 18 | After about a week to ten days the fry will be able to take newly-hatched brine shrimp and from here on the growth rate is very rapid . |
| 19 | After about a week , in a well established system , there will be nothing left . |
| 20 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
| 21 | ‘ At first the pilots and navigators will mostly go their separate ways and concentrate on the subjects peculiar to their own calling , but after about a week they will be crewed-up — one pilot , one nav/observer , and one nav/plotter to a crew on the bomber side and a pilot and a navigator on the PR — and from then on will attend lectures and do drills as crew members . |
| 22 | After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her . |
| 23 | After about a quarter of a mile the track emerges onto more open land dotted with trees , and you can find some lovely juniper bushes here . |
| 24 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its Unix fax unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 25 | While I was n't exactly happy about this , it was interesting to see what happened ; the tip of the Plexaurelia branch which had landed in the mushroom polyps developed blister-like clear vesicles , the whole animal kept inflating and deflating itself more frequently than usual , and after about a week collapsed completely . |
| 26 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 27 | And after about a week , there 'll be no pain in it , and you 'll be doing it no bother at all . |
| 28 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 29 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 30 | Then after about a hundred years , suddenly people seemed to change their , to change their minds about it . |