Example sentences of "[adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be back about five . ’ |
| 2 | We managed to breed some about ten years ago but unfortunately the young died so we are ver pleased with this success . |
| 3 | Patrick is equally reflective about 1982 : ‘ It was my year of thinking . |
| 4 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |
| 5 | As a guide , Christopher Cornell of KF&R 's Cirencester office points out that a top quality red deer stag is worth around £2-3,000 , a hind about £400-500 . |
| 6 | Do this about twelve times with rhythmic , flowing movements . |
| 7 | He 'd write two or three words , rip up the sheet because of an error and do this about five or six times . |
| 8 | He 'd roar with laughter , I suppose , and then ask me what was all this about ‘ little ’ , and we 'd get into some absurd argument about whether he was five feet two or five feet four , end up reviling and swearing at and abusing each other in utter good humour as we used to do often several times a week on the ‘ phone . |
| 9 | Because you rea you 're going to read this about three or four times are n't you ? |
| 10 | Position this about 12 to 15 inches behind the ball and just outside the line directly back from the target . |
| 11 | I say the light on this about 11 years ago to the month . |
| 12 | And this about half past two the day I , I was that sick , vomited and then I took the bile |
| 13 | There was a good Italian film made of this about twenty five years ago . |
| 14 | It is as well to be clear about two charges made by the Left to explain Allende 's downfall . |
| 15 | In the 1890s about 60 per cent of European emigrants went to the United States , but this proportion tended to drop while South America 's share grew steadily . |
| 16 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 17 | Half about eight of them you see . |
| 18 | What was very noticeable about three of the four survivors and about Jean Henderson as recalled by her daughter , was immense enthusiasm for the work . |
| 19 | ‘ The All Blacks are inevitably nervous about a first Test at Christchurch , ’ added Fox . |
| 20 | Oh I was and er let me see eleven , twelve , thirteen about fourteen years . |
| 21 | Dicks was understandably cautious about 1992 . |
| 22 | British industrialists are getting agitated about an £8bn interest-free loan that they 've made to the Government . |
| 23 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 24 | At pH 7.0 about 10% of total radioactivity of [ I ] bFGF was bound to sucralfate , whereas at pH 2.0 the binding increased to about 90% ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 25 | The Chester traincrew concerned were duly relieved about 11.15 am and hitched a lift onto the LM shed from the station . |
| 26 | However , Jolitz was apparently crucial to the project since none of BSDI 's principals , alias CSRG 's staffers , knew much about 386 Berkeley and could n't maintain it . |
| 27 | Well it just depends if it 's market day she goes to market stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours . |
| 28 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 29 | The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |