Example sentences of "at about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It was erupting rhythmically at about eight-minute intervals , which were preceded by two separate and terrifying sounds . |
2 | Thus , while a two child family would have begun paying income tax at about average earnings in the mid-1950s , its liability to income tax began at about half average earnings by the mid-1970s . |
3 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
4 | Laboratory experiments comparing " dreamers " with " non-dreamers " have shown that there is little difference between these groups in their EEG/EOG patterns while asleep.3,4 In all subjects there was the same orderly sequence of sleep stages , with REM sleep periods recurring at about 90-minute intervals throughout the night . |
5 | The Albatross has free entrance for Club guests and Moby Dick 's serve good home-style cooking ( a favourite of the Clubreps ) , or have a drink or two in Monaco 's disco where drinks are at about English pub prices . |
6 | At about high noon we arrived at Coney Island and approached the boardwalk . |