Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need a firm base allowing for about 30mm of sand plus the thickness of the slabs so your path will lie flush with the lawn soil level . |
| 2 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 3 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 4 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 5 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 6 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 7 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 8 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 9 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 10 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 11 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 12 | After driving for about ten minutes Jed looked away to the right . |
| 13 | that 's the speed and she 's tearing into about erm five five strips of sheet metal . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've seen those sods before , they always keep a few Fokkers lurking at about five thousand . |
| 15 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 16 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 17 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 18 | In the first section , Standards Six and Seven were taught , the latter in a corner alcove , usually consisting of about twelve to fourteen boys . |
| 19 | Five miles [ 8 km ] away by sea , but nearly twice as far by road , lay the small fishing town of Teignmouth , consisting of about 40 houses , clustered round a Norman church , and with a wide , gently sloping shingle beach , where today a broad promenade overlooks stretches of firm sand . |
| 20 | Thomas , Elizabeth 's eldest brother , was then living at 11 Chambers Street , Stepney , an 18th-century thoroughfare consisting of about seventy houses in all . |
| 21 | The female also has a ‘ bubble ’ call consisting of about 15 notes on a descending scale . |
| 22 | Mrs Li reckons that in each of her township 's 90 ‘ teams ’ ( each consisting of about 300 people ) two or three families have incomes like hers . |
| 23 | Consisting of about 700,000 words , A Suitable Boy is the longest work of fiction published in English this century . |
| 24 | The officers should be led by a chief executive assisted by a principal chief officers management team consisting of about six members . |
| 25 | Model B , the plan favoured by the DES , would by contrast create a new sector of higher education consisting of about 90 major institutions of higher education in England outside the universities , including all initial teacher training . |
| 26 | These varied from what was essentially the retention of the existing system with a few modifications , to an option referred to as a Commerce Railway consisting of about 16 per cent of the existing network ( meaning that to travel from Manchester to Leeds one would need to go via London ) . |
| 27 | Turkish television described a raid in the early hours of March 10 against a PKK camp " consisting of about 13 tents " 8-9 km inside northern Iraq . |
| 28 | To take one example , at the beginning of the project seven committees were established , each consisting of about six people , to investigate one of a range of competing architectural possibilities . |
| 29 | Some 170 arrests were made , including of about 90 non-Togolese . |
| 30 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |