Example sentences of "[verb] at about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 2 | Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later . |
| 3 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 4 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 5 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 6 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 7 | This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population . |
| 8 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 9 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 10 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 11 | The Oedipus complex coincides with the phallic phase , which occurs at about the age of three , in which both boys and girls are interested in the penis . |
| 12 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 13 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 14 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 15 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 16 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 17 | But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time . |
| 18 | In 1985 , capital expenditure for air pollution control was estimated to have cost industry $10.5 billion , with operation and maintenance costs at about the same level . |
| 19 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 20 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 21 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 22 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 24 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 25 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 26 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 27 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 28 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 29 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 30 | The cheetah maintains its status as the world 's fastest animal ( 110 km/h ) and the prong-horn antelope of the North American plains the fastest herbivore ( 100 km/h ) but , overall , predatory carnivores and their herbivore prey seem to run at about the same speed . |