Example sentences of "[verb] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to go about one o'clock . |
| 2 | Mind you , the combination of a few too many pints before the game and only being able to see about 3/4 of the pitch would n't have made for a very comprehensive report anyway ! |
| 3 | You got about sixteen |
| 4 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |
| 5 | I got about fifty of them if you want them . |
| 6 | Us v Roveres got about 1 min … |
| 7 | you got about four . |
| 8 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 9 | They got about six or seven bars of chocolate as the one the joint ones they got loads of them |
| 10 | Y you got about twelve and sixpence a w a year . |
| 11 | She got about two hundred thousand and a life interest in another two hundred thou . |
| 12 | I got about two left in bunker |
| 13 | We got about two did n't we ? |
| 14 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 15 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 16 | I got about fifteen |
| 17 | I mean , we have n't done so far but we , that 's what but , this is stuff we got about hundred |
| 18 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
| 19 | you got about twenty five if you 're lucky ! |
| 20 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 21 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 22 | And he got about 30 inquiries a day . |
| 23 | Well I got about ten thousand . |
| 24 | So I got about ten twenty five |
| 25 | You got about seven hours tonight I 'll tell you about it . |
| 26 | No , I got about forty anyway . |
| 27 | Once water is removed from the animal matter ( about 60 per cent ) the dried remains burn easily , producing about two-thirds of the weight of coal . |
| 28 | By 1913 the United States was producing about one-third of the total manufacturing output of the whole world : this was as much as Great Britain , France and Germany together . |
| 29 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 30 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |