Example sentences of "of about a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
| 2 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 3 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 4 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 5 | All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course . |
| 6 | Each autumn , collective ministerial choices of about a dozen topics for PAR studies were to be made in co-operation with the CPRS . |