Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 2 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 3 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 4 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 5 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 6 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 7 | Erm sell for about eighty seven pound including spacers so I was gon na go in at about eighty three , eighty four but it 's the new pricing company so I 've got to ask your permission have n't I ? |
| 8 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 15 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 16 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 17 | Stillbirths account for about two-thirds of the perinatal deaths in Japan . |
| 18 | Broadleaved trees now account for about 46 per cent of all planting , encouraged by higher grant rates . |
| 19 | The Audit Commission focused on the 20 most common operations , which account for about 30 per cent . |
| 20 | Food products account for about 30 per cent of Third World manufacturing output and more of employment ( Fath , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | In fact , the right-hand side variables in equation ( 6.7 ) account for about 90 per cent of the movements in so this criterion seems likely to be satisfied . |
| 22 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |
| 24 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 25 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 26 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 27 | Nearly two thirds of the EOE 's clients are private investors who account for about half of the trading volume . |
| 28 | Cairns group members — which include Australia , Brazil , Argentina , Indonesia , Canada , the Philippines and Thailand — account for about one-quarter of world agricultural trade . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | External exposures contributed by caesium-137 and short-lived gamma-emitting radionuclides account for about 700 u Gy of the global dose commitment for all tissues . |