Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] about the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 2 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 3 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 4 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 5 | The remains include a section of the first church , of St Tecla , but are chiefly of a baptistery built about the same time . |
| 6 | The authority had not found out about the incident involving the cadets at Leek until they were in hospital , but tests on the water taken about the same time showed toxics from algae present . |
| 7 | Professional families in Liverpool had about the same age at death as labourers in Wiltshire ( table 2.2 ) . |
| 8 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |
| 9 | Both trains left about the same time . ’ |
| 10 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 11 | Boys and girls show about the same amount of pro-social behaviour . |
| 12 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 13 | Ten minutes later , the president of my bank calls about the same subject . |
| 14 | In order to find out what the substantive law is , we must still go back to the time when Law and Equity were administered in different courts ; we may still have to picture to ourselves distinct proceedings taken about the same matter in those courts , and work out the result of those separate proceedings . |
| 15 | Normal measures of drinks contain about the same amount of alcohol . |
| 16 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 17 | The inhabitants of area A of Umhausen have about the same lifetime radon exposures as one category of uranium miners in West Bohemia ; given about equal levels of lifetime exposure , the ratio of observed to expected lung cancer deaths is about the same ; and mortality from cancers other than lung cancer is not significantly raised . |
| 18 | Hence , the histamine releasing and trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells show about the same concentration dependence with regard to the minimal concentration of gastrin causing maximal effect . |
| 19 | The original Knott Mill ironworks employed about the same number of men making engines and other types of machinery . |
| 20 | My uneventful watch , as we steamed slowly south , gave me plenty of time to think about the many advantages of cruising in these waters compared to other coastal areas I knew , where complex systems of buoyed channels lead the mariner through an unseen maze of shifting shoals . |
| 21 | Very roughly , a glass of beer ( half a pint in the UK ) , a small glass of wine and a standard measure of spirits contain about the same amount of absolute alcohol . |
| 22 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |