Example sentences of "[prep] about the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount . |
| 2 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 3 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 4 | The wood mouse ( or long-tailed field mouse ) apodemus sylvaticus is around three inches long with a tail of about the same length . |
| 5 | There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal , Andrzej Wajda 's epic film of the Warsaw uprising . |
| 6 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 7 | The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size . |
| 8 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 9 | Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation . |
| 10 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 11 | Near Speeton , the upper part of the Speeton Clay was found to contain thin seams of volcanic ash that , in rocks of about the same age in southern England , have been concentrated into commercially attractive occurrences of fuller 's earth . |
| 12 | Chi Octantis ( 5.2 ) will be on the far side of the field ; centre it , and then you will see two more stars of about the same brightness , Sigma and Tau . |
| 13 | A thousand miles northeast of the Grand Canyon , ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior . |
| 14 | ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light . |
| 15 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 16 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 17 | This means that the particles that fall into one black hole will come out of another hole of about the same mass . |
| 18 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 19 | Diametrically opposite from the impact centre of the Caloris basin lies an area of lumpy terrain , consisting of hillocks about 2 km tall and hollows of about the same depth . |
| 20 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 21 | Other similar deposits of about the same age are said to occur at Nusplingen ill the Swabian Jura , at Talbrager in New South Wales and in the central Congo . |
| 22 | Others of about the same age ( i.e. about 2000 million years B.P. ) are the Transvaal Basin in South Africa , the Hamersley Basin in Western Australia and the Dharwars Series of India . |
| 23 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 24 | The Avalonian orogeny of about the same age in Newfoundland , has been interpreted as involving the formation of a volcanic island arc and associated trench sediments on roughly north-south lines . |
| 25 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 26 | Fullarton et al noted a fall of about the same degree , one month after eradicating H pylori from eight patients with inactive duodenal ulcer disease , but again the change was not statistically significant . |
| 27 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 28 | The weapon carries three separate thermonuclear warheads , each with about the same power as the single warhead in a cruise missile ( 150–200 kilotons ) . |
| 29 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that the Army coming in , with about the same sort of strength as the RAF , is going to be good for the community and local economy . |