Example sentences of "down [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 2 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 3 | So I think he was down for about six months before he left . |
| 4 | Where we were dru , the spi , the Espinear used to be drummed down for about five , six , seven years . |
| 5 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 6 | The computer unit that is being closed had sales of just $169m last year , down from about $1,200m at its peak , shortly before Prime completed a hostile takeover of the original Computervision company back in early 1988 . |
| 7 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 8 | Smugglers have also been intercepted taking tusks out of Ethiopia , which is estimated to have only about 2,400 elephants , down from about 8,700 in 1986 . |
| 9 | I 'll be down in about twenty minutes , okay ? |
| 10 | My friend of the South coast of England days , a Corporal Chauvet , informed me in his usual quiet manner that the two Troops of French Commandos , numbering almost two-hundred men , who had landed on 6th June were now , due to casualties , down to about sixty-seven men . |
| 11 | CHP sizes are cost-effective — now down to about 17kW electrical output — and suitable for the average 25-bedroom hotel . |
| 12 | In the meantime , specific cost-cutting exercises need to be considered to bring the cost for the next six months down to about £9,000 . |
| 13 | The plan estimates the costs of implementation in some detail — about 3 per cent of national income up to 1994 , settling down to about 2 per cent by 2010 . |
| 14 | It is an actual fact that eventually membership whittled down to about three or four . ’ |
| 15 | A well-made heap will heat rapidly to about 66°C in the first week , the temperature then dropping slowly down to about 29°C after three months . |
| 16 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 17 | The speed of the train in Queen Victoria 's time was , by her own wish , kept down to about 36 miles an hour , but now it travels at the line speed . |
| 18 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 19 | By now I was down to about 15″ . |
| 20 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 21 | Existing theories are reckoned to hold good down to about 10 seconds after the Big Bang . |
| 22 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 23 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 24 | It can also cut access holes down to about 5in diameter in plasterboard or floorboards in fairly confined spaces because of its in-line design , ( using a small-radius cutting blade for wood/plaster ) . |
| 25 | Depending on how the aircraft is flown , if the mixture is leaned right off , fuel burn will go down to about 80 gallons an hour , but at maximum take-off power the aircraft will burn almost 300 gallons an hour , which at one gallon ever 12 seconds is quicker than one can get water out of a household tap ! |
| 26 | Hours of work were falling — by 1900 most western European countries were down to about sixty per week for adult men — and social services and welfare legislation were becoming more usual . |
| 27 | As soon as the growth buds begin to show signs of movement in spring , take the existing canes down to about 15 inches ( 38cm ) from ground level . |
| 28 | More likely , the majority will be down to about six . |
| 29 | It a is actually a lot better because you can get them usually get them down to about five p a copy . |
| 30 | With the discount moving down to about 20 per cent by mid-1990 , others may be similarly tempted even though the discount rate reflects some measure of the depreciated economic value of the assets . |