Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dream incorporation was judged to have taken placed on about half the occasions . |
| 2 | In one study , necropsy was undertaken in about half of the patients who died , and showed graft occlusion only in patients given aprotinin . |
| 3 | Two and one half inches of rain had fallen in about two hours , the sky clearing just before sundown . |
| 4 | When completed in about 18 months time , the stations , which are about four miles apart , will stop raw sewage from three outfalls that serve 42,000 people being discharged on to the foreshore . |
| 5 | The Los Angeles-San Francisco drive can be completed in about nine hours , but to digest the scenic delights fully and sample the occasionally bizarre sights along the way will take take two or three leisurely days , stopping on a whim at one of the hotels or bed and breakfast inns that proliferate along the way . |
| 6 | Data collection and interpretation will be completed in about 2 years after which a decision will be made on whether to drill . |
| 7 | The updating task can be completed in about 15 minutes . |
| 8 | Since the US Patent Office opened in 1790 over four million patents have been issued — yet women have received only about 60 000 ( or 1.5% ) . |
| 9 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 10 | Pitching : the inner is erected in about four minutes and goes up first . |
| 11 | This potential was fully realised in about 1988 . |
| 12 | ‘ Which is a weird coincidence — since both crimes appear to have been committed within about twenty-four hours of each other . ’ |
| 13 | It is also much enhanced by the middle projection of columned porch and bell tower , probably added in about 1840 . |
| 14 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 15 | Rolled in about five minutes ago demanding to see you . |
| 16 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 17 | I also found a modest typed item : ‘ Newton or Easter Newton , as it was sometimes designated , was a possession of a branch of the Roses of Kilravock , having been rebuilt in about 1650 … ’ |
| 18 | It was rebuilt in about 1700 BC , although to a significantly different plan and at a higher level , so that the lower wall-courses of the earlier temple and its west façade are still visible on the west side , now that the site has been excavated to the earlier courtyard level . |
| 19 | Its total population is thought to be no greater than 200–300 , scattered along about 1400 km ( 875 miles ) of the Yangtze 's lower and central sections . |
| 20 | A stone by another roadside , on the isle of Skye , served for years as a door jamb in the Tote shoemaker 's house until rescued in about 1880 . |
| 21 | A batch of sheep is loaded , dipped and discharged in about 2 minutes 15–30 seconds , which means up to 300 an hour can be handled . |
| 22 | After they 'd looked over about ten children , the doctor yawned and said , ‘ I do n't see any problems here . |
| 23 | The manufacturing plant once surrounding it , is today located separately about half a mile away . |
| 24 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 25 | Well you may be an old ham actor , but I note you 've picked up about five or six , I think , honourary degrees now . |
| 26 | It was designed in 1731 by William Adam , and much of the beautiful interior is ‘ Adam Revival ’ carried out about 1880 . |
| 27 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 28 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 29 | Thaxted church was built in about 1340 and the finishing touches were made in the 1550s ; with its magnificent structure it could easily have been the cathedral of north-west Essex if one had ever been needed . |
| 30 | The theatre was built in about 80 B.C. and accommodated 1200 . |