Example sentences of "about [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 2 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 3 | The Zenon Papyri have shown how in about 259 B.C. the agents of the finance minister Apollonius operated in the interests of their master : one of his estates was at Bet Anat in Galilee ( Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1 , 1–5 ) . |
| 4 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 5 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |
| 6 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 7 | The large hut — used to store scaffolding equipment — in Warham Road , Dovercourt , caught fire at about 7.30 pm on Monday . |
| 8 | The following morning , 19 April , at about 7.30 a.m. , Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ made their way to the dockyard where Crabb changed into his diving gear and , with the aid of some officers from NID , entered the water near the south-west jetty . |
| 9 | This is an early use of the implied term ‘ Veterinary Surgeon ’ , which was not established as a title until about 1796 when it was introduced as an army designation ) . |
| 10 | Economic information from French consuls about the countries in which they were stationed had begun to be published in various forms from about 1829 onwards , notably in the Annales du commerce extérieur from 1843 , while the Bulletin consulaire français began publication in 1877 and the Moniteur officiel du commerce in 1883 . |
| 11 | In favour of the latter explanation is the sudden appearance of the Cretan round tomb in about 3000 BC : they are not known in Crete before that time . |
| 12 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 13 | Okay and we can get about fifty there can we ? |
| 14 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 15 | The first explicit statement in Greek literature that , although individual things are subject to change and decay , the world itself is eternal appears to have been made by the philosopher Heraclitus about 500 BC . |
| 16 | It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls . |
| 17 | There are also , dating from about 500 B.C. , gateways of the lintel and arched types . |
| 18 | The 25 November fire in the Body Shop started at about 2.40 am , and the whole of the shop and its contents , including the workmen 's benches and tools , were entirely destroyed , only portions of the walls , columns and ironwork remaining . |
| 19 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 20 | Well no , I sha n't get up ear definitely sha n't get up till about eight tomorrow . |
| 21 | It had six bedrooms , which works out at two each , as well as two bathrooms and about eight downstairs rooms . |
| 22 | About eight tonight ? ’ |
| 23 | See you about eight then , ’ Charlotte said . |
| 24 | So if anybody would like to write I 'll let them have all the addresses , there are about eight there , so erm , otherwise it 's just the urgent action network which is er a constant thing really . |
| 25 | NACRO has also found that about eight out of ten young people are being fined . |
| 26 | ‘ I should think about eight now . ’ |
| 27 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
| 28 | Come for us about eight o'clock . ’ |
| 29 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 30 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |