Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 2 | The issues of Langley 's Forest Eyres in Cumberland and Northumberland amounted to about five times as much as previous eyres had brought in . |
| 3 | By the end of each summer Hoskins has his family freezer filled with about 12000 individually wrapped yellow jacket wasps . |
| 4 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 5 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 6 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 7 | Food products account for about 30 per cent of Third World manufacturing output and more of employment ( Fath , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | So total general government income amounted to about £180,000 million . |
| 9 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 10 | The feet can be washed in an oblong , straight-sided plastic household bucket filled with about six inches of warm water and a few drops of mild disinfectant , while sitting on a bathroom stool ( or using the lavatory as a seat ) . |
| 11 | Their ages ranged from about fourteen to fifty , but the majority were youngsters out at work all day who were losing out on regular schooling . |
| 12 | A beginner starts with about 25 push-ups and then gradually over the following months builds the count up to 100 . |
| 13 | These antiques of the future sell for about £375 in rosewood . |
| 14 | For 400 years the city has been divided between Estonians and Latvians , but today Russian speakers account for about 40 per cent of the population . |
| 15 | The Volvo skidded for about fifty yards , its speed gradually slowing . |
| 16 | The loss of revenue amounted to about £1 million a week . |
| 17 | No 4 pilot of Jigger Green flight saw an aircraft attacking from the rear and broke into it and engaged it in combat , but as Jigger Green 4 turned to rejoin his flight he saw an aircraft tumbling at about 8,000ft . |
| 18 | Competitive pricing is one of Renault 's strong suits ; the 19 DX starts at about £11,700 . |
| 19 | The plug fits into the aforementioned SRD-6SB energiser box from which a one-metre four-way cable fitted with 4mm plugs is taken to standard loudspeaker sockets on any amplifier rated from about 5 watts-per-channel upwards . |
| 20 | By the end of the reign total land revenue came to about £100,000 , a rise of nearly 25 per cent , compared with a price rise of about 75 per cent . |
| 21 | The former collection of Dr Paul Alexandre consisted of about 500 drawings . |
| 22 | The Data Processing Department consisted of about 40 people of whom seven were concerned with Systems Design and Development . |
| 23 | This action leads to about sixty misunderstandings a week . |
| 24 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |
| 25 | In contrast , the average peroxide concentration increases from about 600 p.p.t.v. to about 900p.p.t.v. between mid morning and late afternoon , followed by an overnight loss . |
| 26 | ‘ It all seemed very remote to me — having a baby — right up until the labour began at about 11pm . |
| 27 | Distant cars pass by about once in three minutes . |
| 28 | Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . |
| 29 | They are two of some 40,000 BCCI account holders in Britain with collective losses amounting to about £2 billion . |
| 30 | The only thing even vaguely new about it was the padlock on the door , which Jekub hit at about six miles an hour . |