Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 .
2 I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 .
3 The required names should be entered , using the up and down arrow keys to move about the scrolled area .
4 The original Knott Mill ironworks employed about the same number of men making engines and other types of machinery .
5 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 .
6 When the big night finally arrived , New York 's all-powerful theatre critics raved about the acting performances , but the play soon became , literally , a pain in the neck for its star .
7 For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker .
8 Many of the other budget measures left oil companies confused about the overall impact on their revenues at a time when oil industry funding is under pressure from sluggish international prices .
9 The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered .
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