Example sentences of "[verb] about one " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to go about one o'clock . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It offers about one hour 's straight playing time per side . |
| 4 | Never carry more than one-third of your body weight , and aim to carry about one quarter of it . |
| 5 | The name of the Birmingham Six may haunt the British legal system , but it can always gloat about one of its greatest triumphs , the case of a notorious bunch of Scottish footballers who go by the name of The Copenhagen Five . |
| 6 | No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads . |
| 7 | The Western world annually produces about one billion tonnes of industrial waste . |
| 8 | On a clear day on the equator , at noon , each square metre of the Earth 's surface receives about one kilowatt ( kW ) of solar energy ; that is , one hundred kilocalories ( kcal ) per hour . |
| 9 | So far , these totalled about one million , of whom more than half had already developed AIDS , Dr Merson told an international conference on HIV in children and mothers , to be opened tomorrow by the Princess of Wales . |
| 10 | Situated about one and a half hours from Avignon by car on the Route Nationale to Carpentras . |
| 11 | This is a pleasant modern hotel , situated about one and a half miles from the old village of Ovindoli . |
| 12 | Well just do n't think about one thing and forget about all the others . |
| 13 | This fungus , Pilobolus , is commonly found growing on the surface of bovine faecal pats about one week after these have been deposited . |
| 14 | Manfred Kerstan is a typically affluent ARC participant ; Albatros is a Swan 61 and the entry fee constitutes about one hundredth of her value . |
| 15 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 16 | Later in 1993 , we expect to announce a scheme for developing the Mars field ( BP : x% ) and the area around it , which is estimated to contain about one billion barrels of proved and unproved reserves . |
| 17 | When courtship starts , he brings his belly close to that of the female and the two coil about one another . |
| 18 | With a workforce of 160 , Boursin holds about one third of the French speciality cheese market in France and exports to the UK , Benelux , Switzerland and Germany . |
| 19 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 20 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 21 | I 'll meet you there , then , say about one o'clock ? ’ |
| 22 | He began to write about one such P'daytaism , and then crossed it out . |
| 23 | However , I did not want to write about one single instance , one particular community . |
| 24 | Kenya has about one million flamingos living around lakes Nakuru and Bogoria , a major tourist attraction , and the species ' survival is not said to be threatened by the epidemic , which is expected to die down in about a month . |
| 25 | The Oxford region has about one hundred and forty of the nine hundred cases nationally , and general manager Bob Nichols says they certainly would n't seek to settle out of court . |
| 26 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 27 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 28 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , yes : two sources actually ; a dry extract of nux vomica — that is to say of the ground-up seeds of the plant ; this contains about five per cent strychnine ; and a preparation known as liquor strychnine hydrochloride which contains about one per cent of the hydrochloride . ’ |
| 30 | The Inn of the Golden Crab is a small , attractive complex of 20 apartments located about one hundred yards from the beach . |