Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | No mine goes deeper than about 3 km , because heat and air pressure become too great . |
| 2 | It has its moments but the joke wears thin after about ten minutes and the final hour is boring and pathetic . |
| 3 | The Old Dyke was a dry ditch , fifteen paces broad and about ten feet deep , backed to the west with a bank of earth , dry , decayed , tumbled , but running straight across the forest for mile after mile , monument of some forgotten war centuries old . |
| 4 | Overall it seems likely that about 10 per cent of the population aged 65 + experiences depressive illness of clinical significance ( Table 5.7 ) . |
| 5 | This seems reasonable and about 50% of these are situated on the Tyne . |
| 6 | The onset of the disease is very gradual and breathlessness only becomes troublesome when about half of the lung has been destroyed . |