Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 2 | Studies of such wavelengths , shorter than about 104 nanometres , have been difficult , but they are important to chemists because of the actions they can have on atoms and molecules . |
| 3 | At wavelengths shorter than about 104 nanometres , there are no materials suitable for use as windows to transmit the radiation into the vacuum chamber . |
| 4 | It would be sensible if about fifty of these planes could be sent to Korea and the pilots could be found in Korea . |
| 5 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 6 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 7 | He had lied about this as about much else and she knew she should feel neither hurt nor surprised . |
| 8 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 9 | In the dipterocarp forests of Borneo , the variation in species patterns is correlated with HCI-extractable phosphorus and magnesium where these levels are lower than about 220 ppm of phosphorus and 1200ppm magnesium . |
| 10 | However , when ED is 200 cm -1 , the ratio is 0·34 ; therefore a sample of a compound with a vibration of frequency lower than about 300 cm -1 has a significant proportion of its molecules in vibrationally excited states . |
| 11 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 12 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 13 | The pollen stratigraphy indicates that Salix -dominated vegetation , with a wide variety of herbs was prominent until about 6000 B.P. At about this time Empetrum and Calluna heath , grassland with abundant Plantago lanceolata and P. maritima , and fern-rich vegetation became widespread . |
| 14 | The most levels of disability remain low until about 70 and then rise quickly . |
| 15 | If the statute is later than about 1968 it will be found in the Continuation Volumes , which are all indexed in the latest Cumulative Supplement . |
| 16 | In a very real sense , the SD Ribbon is what you make of it , and should be shortlisted , subject to the remarks made above , by those with ( or contemplating purchasing ) a high performance system costing in excess of £4000 or so , and with rooms larger than about 4 x 3 meters . |
| 17 | Second , and more commonly , there are less heavily cratered areas in which there are fairly well-spaced craters larger than about 20 to 30 km diameter , the spaces between being called intercrater plains . |
| 18 | It is estimated that the basin would have become no deeper than about 5 km , and as today Mare Imbrium is of negligible depth there could be up to about 5 km of infill . |
| 19 | Most seismic sources in the Earth lie no deeper than about 100 km and generate much more seismic energy than all the lunar sources put together . |
| 20 | No mine goes deeper than about 3 km , because heat and air pressure become too great . |
| 21 | This growth in membership , which had been fairly rapid since about 1906 , was the result of a variety of factors , particularly the improved economic conditions , the high demand for labour and the high wages which were paid in war time . |
| 22 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 23 | Selecting another piece of grass , he said : ‘ Anyway , I stayed awake until about four this morning , going over and over it in my mind , and when I woke an hour or so later , I had one almighty headache … bloody brass band playing inside the old brainbox … flashing lights before the eyes … the lot ! |
| 24 | School started at about 8.30 till about 3.30 and I could n't miss any lessons . |
| 25 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 26 | On the Sunday , the theme of ‘ They shall be comforted ’ continued when about 70 people attended the Awareness Day in St Thomas More 's , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 28 | Apart from those in urban employment nobody had more than about 10 miles to travel for their off-farm jobs . |
| 29 | Felted roofing — and flat roofs in particular , need regular supervision if they are to stay watertight once they 're more than about 10 years old . |
| 30 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |