Example sentences of "[verb] at about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cell sap normally starts to freeze at about -3°C , and ice forming within the cells causes fatal damage to plant tissues . |
| 2 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 3 | Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later . |
| 4 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 5 | If you collect plates or similar items , which are best displayed vertically , a grooved shelf installed at about picture rail height provides an answer . |
| 6 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 7 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 8 | The Nimbus was undamaged but the K8 had one wing severed at about half-span as well as other serious damage . |
| 9 | German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships . |
| 10 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 11 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 12 | This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population . |
| 13 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 14 | The incident occurred at about noon on Monday . |
| 15 | The tempo run would be done at about your best 10-mile speed and would last 15–20 minutes . |
| 16 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 17 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 18 | The latter , in addition to recording the histories of Anglo-Saxon kings and churchmen , chronicled that of Glastonbury Abbey at the request of its monks , and several other monasteries , including Abingdon , Ely , Evesham , Peterborough and Ramsey , also had histories written at about this time . |
| 19 | In any case — and this is probably the least-quoted medical fact at parties — the lowest risk of heart disease occurs at about a glass of wine a day , so the average social drinker is well past any ‘ protective ’ effect of alcohol . |
| 20 | The Oedipus complex coincides with the phallic phase , which occurs at about the age of three , in which both boys and girls are interested in the penis . |
| 21 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 22 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 23 | The large main smoothing electrolytic C1 must be rated at about 5A ripple current . |
| 24 | People in the square outside the museum panicked and ran when the bomb exploded at about 1 pm , shortly before the afternoon rush hour . |
| 25 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 26 | MARKETING MOVES aside , the fact that Radiohead have barred themselves from the 3,000-sales-and-you're-a-star indie party by signing to EMI means that , as stunning as ‘ Creep ’ sounds , it 'll probably chart at about Number 74 , hang around for a couple of weeks and fall back out again without so much as a whimper . |
| 27 | The total amount of growth hormone that is secreted per day increases to a maximum at about the time of puberty and is partially responsible for the growth spurt that is seen at about this time . |
| 28 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 29 | This screening came at about midnight , after a traditional Elizabethan dinner and free drinks , with an 8.30am departure due the following day . |
| 30 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |