Example sentences of "about [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thought to have been built by the Earls of Ross in about 1590 and a new wing , including a brewhouse and bakery , added in 1623 . |
| 2 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 3 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 4 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 5 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 6 | It clearly influenced the League of Nations Union ‘ Peace Ballot ’ , held in June 1935 and involving about eleven and a half million people , the majority of whom voted in favour of disarmament and the need for collective military action against aggressor nations should economic sanctions fail . |
| 7 | three and a half minutes short , in fact you did it in about eleven and a half minutes . |
| 8 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 9 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 10 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 11 | Others , like Tim Robinson and Derek Randall , have their own businesses so that leaves us to fix up about 10 or a dozen with work at Trent Bridge , coaching and helping the commercial department as well as working on their game . |
| 12 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 13 | Anyway , it was a bit weird cos we had to go with parties cos they 're all they 're all black and they 're all about six and a half feet tall you know ! |
| 14 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 15 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 16 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 17 | Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours . |
| 18 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 19 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 20 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
| 21 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 22 | About three and a half foot from the ground . |
| 23 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 24 | Fifty per cent less on the mortgage means erm about three and a half thousand . |
| 25 | thirty six , he 's about three and a half |
| 26 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 27 | It 's about three and a half years . |
| 28 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 29 | But it 's gon na take us , I mean , what Gatwick took us about three and a half hours did n't it ? |
| 30 | Erm round about three and a quarter thousand . |