Example sentences of "[vb -s] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 2 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 3 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 4 | According to the Times , First Peson is to be headed by Rosing , has about a dozen employees , and is presently in process of moving into new premises in Palo Alto . |
| 5 | Mr Major has about a year to display it . |
| 6 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 7 | Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base . |
| 8 | This is made worse by the fact that few butchers hang their lamb these days , despite the fact that it only needs about a week to bring on the flavour . |
| 9 | Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words . |
| 10 | Situated 2,300 metres above sea , the air contains about a third the amount of oxygen of that at sea level . |
| 11 | Cos he lives about a quarter of a mile away from the school . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 13 | The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae causes about a third of some 3,000 annual meningitis cases and an estimated 250 deaths in England and Wales . |
| 14 | The N A S U W T says about a quarter of its teachers face problems brought on by poor pay and extra responsibilities . |
| 15 | The group meets about every second month with representatives from the board and discusses results and further plans . |
| 16 | Peterson have no pretensions about selling these racks to the masses , because of course they 're really for well-heeled professionals , and a pocket tuner ( which costs about a tenth of the price of the R450 ) really is adequate for most things . |
| 17 | It costs about a £1,000 a month to run the centre . |
| 18 | I mean it costs about a hundred and twenty three pounds a day |
| 19 | When everyone has been checked , a senior Ranger leads about a dozen riders over to the park where less experienced riders are given lessons . |
| 20 | The master list includes about a dozen organisations covering the main ethnic groups . |
| 21 | Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal . |
| 22 | It takes about a minute to print a full A4 page . |
| 23 | Even experienced form-fillers say that the paperwork takes about a week . |
| 24 | Other big spenders include personal social services and the police , each of which takes about a tenth . |
| 25 | Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence . |
| 26 | It takes about an hour to travel the length of the lake in complete silence . |
| 27 | The Ynys Hywel Trail takes about an hour . |
| 28 | Well Marg I mean I phoned Margaret , she said it takes about an hour . |
| 29 | The crossing takes about an hour and a half . |
| 30 | There are hides and a footpath around the reserve which takes about an hour to walk . |