Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 31 | The harsh measures of the transitory period are expected to lower the standard of living for about 20 per cent of the population . |
| 32 | After living for about eighty years , they become ill and miserable . |
| 33 | Purchases with credit cards and shop accounts were distributed fairly evenly through all price ranges up to about £500 , but HP ( in the widest , popular sense ) was used most for things costing between about £ 1 00 and £500 ( see Appendix I , Table 17 ) . |
| 34 | In 1989–90 it took in £5 billion and paid out £9 billion , the following year 's net outflow was £1 billion but for the year just ended there was a £1 billion inflow and now that the government really needs cash , it is probably looking for about £5 billion this year . |
| 35 | Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week . |
| 36 | We 're looking for about two big paragraphs or so plus some photographs , to go onto one of these . |
| 37 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 38 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 39 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 40 | Looking for about twenty minutes or so . |
| 41 | But erm , that one you 'll be looking for about five hundred for the ways |
| 42 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 43 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 44 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 45 | Now it 's looking like about ninety one . |
| 46 | In reality , this is probably as much as you 'll ever need , translating into about 7 bars of music at a fairly moderate tempo — enough for a single sitting ( … but not for Freebird — Ed ) . |
| 47 | The holes are short , ranging from about 70 to about 150 yards . |
| 48 | Within this area they recommended fifty-two London boroughs with populations ranging from about 100,000 to 250,000 . |
| 49 | Alcoholic drinks have a significant calorie content ranging from about 50 calories for a small measure of spirit to 70–130 for a glass of wine and 90–130 for half a pint of beer . |
| 50 | But the average of hou , price for a house alarm ranging from about two hundred and seventy five pounds . |
| 51 | A collection of 12 large drawings depicting views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus , by Clara Mayer , dating from about 1790 , made the top price at £71,500 ( estimate £40,000-£60,000 ) . |
| 52 | To get down to Ballycastle from here you have to return to the road , but before reaching the town you pass the well-preserved ruins of the Franciscan Bonamargy Friary , dating from about 1500 . |
| 53 | In a famous inscription dating from about 830 BCE , known as the Moabite Stone , a king of Moab called Mesha boasts of a campaign against some Israelite towns . |
| 54 | It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls . |
| 55 | The nature of the succession and structure of the rocks there had given rise to a controversy , dating from about 1860 , between Murchison and Professor Nicol of Aberdeen . |
| 56 | The nature-god pendant found at Aigina looks very much like Middle Minoan III work , dating from about 1600 BC ; it may have been robbed from the Chrysolakkos tomb at Mallia in antiquity . |
| 57 | This free-scrolling handle , dating from about 1740 , was known as a flying scroll handle . |
| 58 | But the first evidence of abstinence from pork is absence of pig bones among the bones of cattle and sheep at Egyptian neolithic sites dating from about 4400 BC . |
| 59 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 60 | This building is more Romanesque than other works ; it is cruciform and has a particularly fine galleried and arcaded apse dating from about 1140 . |