Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 2 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 3 | Should think it starts at about sixteen , seventeen thousand . |
| 4 | The velocity of conduction varies somewhat ; in the giant axons of Periplaneta it occurs at about 7 metres per second , while in the afferent nerves from the paraprocts of Anax nymphs it is about 2 m -I ( see , for example , Chapman and Pankhurst , 1967 ) . |
| 5 | I was simply making the point that there is a cost in keeping a school desk empty — in St. Helens it amounts to about £1.5 million every year . |
| 6 | Like the previous species it grows to about 20cm in the wild , but is more likely to attain half this size in captivity . |
| 7 | It grows to about 4″ . |
| 8 | It grows to about 16″ and prefers a rich substrate . |
| 9 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 10 | In about thirty per cent of the cases ground tuition is free , while for others it ranges from about £2 per hour up to £18.40 per hour ex-VAT . |
| 11 | Well , it travels at about three hundred thousand kilometres per second , or if you prefer the normal British units , a hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second . |
| 12 | ‘ More Than One Photography ’ ( on at the museum until 9 August ) is the result of his efforts and it consists of about sixty works by artists of all disciplines ( including ‘ pure ’ photographers who present their work non-traditionally ) . |
| 13 | In Britain and in the Netherlands it accounts For about 10 per cent of the total consumption of sugar , in Ireland for 8 per cent , in Germany and France for about 5 per cent . |
| 14 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 15 | It dates from about 14,600 24,700 B.P. and contains a herb-dominated pollen assemblage with occasional grains of Helianthemum , a genus very rare in western Scotland today and absent from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 16 | It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below . |
| 17 | Erm if you add all that up it comes to about three million words . |
| 18 | Erm , if you compare for example erm their real savings on er er budgetary items er it comes to about half a million , just over half a million er compared to the ones we 're putting forward about a third of million and if you look at the dips in the two budgets for that you 'll see that erm we disagree with their saving on community arts and that er they propose saving on in on information technology costs is unrealistic er that market is changing very rapidly there 's another large organisation in this city which has found us going down track which we are now proposing to down , has produced no income at all , no no no reduction in cost at all . |
| 19 | Yeah it comes to about four hundred and thirty five pound a month . |