Example sentences of "[verb] to about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand from 's nephew that the electric convector in the sitting room is dead , and shall speak to about some kind of replacement , though there is of course the second convector in the bedroom which should suffice at this time of year . |
| 2 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 3 | It came to about one and three halfpence an hour . |
| 4 | speak to about this . |
| 5 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 6 | In most research studies of bereaved people it is recorded time and time again that , so long as the people involved have somewhere to go and someone to talk to about this major loss in their life , then they may well cope . |
| 7 | He said Advanced Micro 's announcement it plans to ship ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of 80486 chips this year amounts to about one week of Intel 's total productive capacity , and as for the latter 's plans to line up a manufacturing partner to boost production in 1994 , he said he doubts the company will find much excess capacity in the industry — and any company acting as a partner with Advanced Micro could face legal action , but he would not say what Intel might do . |
| 8 | If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea . |
| 9 | Butomus umbellatus ( flowering rush ) grows to about 1 metre high |
| 10 | Growing to about one inch in length , rasbora maculata is a very peaceful species that is an ideal addition to a community environment . |
| 11 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 12 | It get , it gets , it gets to about that length |
| 13 | Were you speaking to about another ghost story or was that the one ? |
| 14 | The basic astronomical unit is , in fact , known to about one part in a million . |
| 15 | What should you do if you are spoken to about this ? |
| 16 | All fungi require about 20 per cent moisture content in the host wood to germinate and although in new buildings the moisture content of the timber may be as high as 18 per cent , this is soon reduced to about 12–14 per cent by heating and ventilation of the enclosed spaces . |
| 17 | And I 'm going to get some tapes to Clare and the letter writing stuff , find out about a photocopying account , talk to about more tapes , transcription notes , erm meeting log forms , demographic transcription , and editing of transcription that we do . |
| 18 | During this time , heart rate slows to about one tenth of the normal rate , breathing almost ceases , body temperature falls dramatically and the hedgehogs lose over 30 per cent of their body weight . |
| 19 | By 1980 though , the US contribution had fallen to about one sixth , America 's day of being an oil exporter was long gone and oil dependence on the Middle East had begun . |
| 20 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 21 | Consequently , although the modulus is high , specimen deformation is limited to about 1 per cent , due to the lack of glide planes in the disordered mass . |
| 22 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 23 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 24 | It was just like a boil , it was a big double it went to about single do n't laugh |
| 25 | The siting of these tombs dates to about 1376–7 . |
| 26 | ‘ If there was anyone else I could possibly talk to about this I would . |
| 27 | The person you should talk to about this is your tutor at college and to a counsellor . |