Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm and that 's about right place where it is , I wonder if it 's that . |
| 2 | It consists of a beam of caesium atoms whose hyperfine transition frequency , at about 9.2 gigahertz , is probed by a microwave field using the ‘ Ramsey technique ’ , where the interaction takes place in two spatially separated regions with a field-free region between them . |
| 3 | About 3000 water samples , collected in the Liverpool Bay-Anglesey area as part of the Geochemical Survey Programme , have been analysed for 28 elements . |
| 4 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 5 | In volume two of " The Glasgow Geography " of 1825 we are told in the short entry that " wheat is also raised in considerable quantity " and that about 3000 head of black cattle are sold annually . |
| 6 | the major potential confounder is this analysis is pH , because pH values of oesophageal fluid are about 1.0 log point lower than pH values of saliva . |
| 7 | How do they get a things about fifty foot tall then ? |
| 8 | Well , about fifty year ago a suit of staple tweed cost £3 10s . |
| 9 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 10 | No the highest she said is about fifty pee . |
| 11 | Oh ours is , Mike knows somebody , one of the lads , their mum works in the Poll Tax Office in Buckley and erm , she reckons that , that ours will be going up about fifty pound is it ? |
| 12 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 13 | It 's about fifty pound now there somewhere , this is unfair of this Tory government , who by the way does n't agree with women in the front benches . |
| 14 | I can get is that , I have to borrow about , be about fifty pound , summat like |
| 15 | None of the four played any part in the 1719 invasion , and the real centre of British power in the Highlands was Inverness , where Major-General Joseph Wightman was in command of some 130 Highlanders , 120 dragoons and about 850 foot soldiers , including four companies of infantry from Holland . |
| 16 | On Feb. 8 about 500 conscript soldiers from Topraisar on the Black Sea had demonstrated in Victory Square about their living conditions . |
| 17 | Until 12 months ago about 500 air force personnel worked here . |
| 18 | Our overall consumption figure of 22.6mpg P which included testing at Millbrook , about 500 motorway miles and lots of urban motoring — is a reasonable result but nothing more in the light of the identically powerful Volvo 850 's 25.9mpg . |
| 19 | This technique , which derives its name from the Fast , Low angle , single-Shot method , provides images in about 500 ms , fast enough to resolve peristaltic motion . |
| 20 | This emphasis has tended to eclipse developments in analysis of the Middle Pleistocene record , which begins with the Mauer ( Heidelberg ) mandible ( estimated age about 500 kyr ) and ends at about 130 kry , after which time undoubted Neanderthals were present in Europe . |
| 21 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 22 | Averaging the EEG over forty such self-initiated movements , Libet found that there was indeed a time-locked negative shift beginning about 550 msec before the movement . |
| 23 | When my grandfather died in er just about that year . |
| 24 | Anyway perhaps if if I come back to you after next Tuesday afternoon when I 've got a meeting to talk just about that subject with the deputy and see what options are going to come forward . |
| 25 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 26 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 27 | Their work did not receive much attention , however , because at just about that time most people abandoned the original string theory of the strong force in favor of the theory based on quarks and gluons , which seemed to fit much better with observations . |
| 28 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 29 | Well there 'd be dying and scouring and tacking sorting , trimming , packing , drying , all kind , you know that that 's about total number of departments , brushing . |
| 30 | There are now estimated to be about 760,000 minke whales in the Antarctic , up from less than 200,000 in the early 1970s , and some supporters of whaling argue that the increase in minke numbers is putting pressure on food stocks and hampering the recovery of more seriously endangered whale species . |