Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 2 | Alpharetta , Georgia-based Digital Communications Associates Inc has now completed its acquisition of Computer Logics Ltd for about $8m cash and repayment of about $4m of shareholder debt ; an earn-out agreement means that the total price can rise to as much as $12m . |
| 3 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 4 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 5 | The orchard was about two-hundred yards long by about three-hundred yards broad . |
| 6 | Okay then , erm six tanks erm reinforced concrete er two metres square by about two metres high with er on the top . |
| 7 | Given the straits to which the British economy was reduced in 1947 , when it was necessary to ration even bread and potatoes , an outflow of capital equal to about 8 per cent of national income and nearly equal to total net domestic capital formation ( including stock-building ) is a very extraordinary event . |
| 8 | On March 15 the Interior Ministry announced that it was to drop the charges pending against about 6,000 people for illegal political activities during the regime of Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 9 | At first Daedalus sought a lubricating oil freezing at about 0°C , with some idea of boiling tons of it in vast kettles set up near ski slopes . |
| 10 | It has signed a letter of intent to be acquired by the Hauppauge , New York-based peripherals conglomerate North Atlantic Industries Inc for about $7m in cash and shares . |
| 11 | Singapore-headquartered Creative Technology Ltd has completed its previously announced acquisition of E-mu Systems Inc for about $29.5m after E-mu holders voted on March 1 to approve the agreement . |
| 12 | He went on : ‘ Linford was a bit special from about seven years old and we were told by teachers at secondary school he was very talented . |
| 13 | And it is a a very important pathogen responsible for about a third of the cases of meningitis in in this country almost exclusively in children . |
| 14 | Thus for a polymer with a flexible chain , such as polyisoprene , the thermal energy available at about 300 K is sufficient to cause the chain to change shape many thousands of times in a second . |
| 15 | The several occultations by Mercury of the radio signals from Mariner 10 yielded radii of cross-sections inclined at about 2° and 68° with respect to the equatorial plane , and the radii are the same to within about 0.5 km . |
| 16 | Singapore-based Soundblaster board specialist Creative Technology Ltd has signed a letter of intent for acquisition of ShareVision Technology Inc for about $11m cash . |
| 17 | Spokane , Washington-based Key Tronic Corp is to acquire the keyboard division of Honeywell Inc for about $33m , much of it in new Key Tronic shares : the agreement will double Key Tronic 's production capacity and will leave Honeywell with a 7% stake in the keyboard manufacturer . |