Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western world annually produces about one billion tonnes of industrial waste . |
| 2 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 3 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 4 | Grandma was really slagging her off were n't she Maureen Lipman , oh god , yeah , oh I do n't like her , she has too many programmes , I 've only seen about one |
| 5 | You should , you should only have about one person |
| 6 | She was tired of younger men : ‘ They only think about one thing . ’ |
| 7 | probably not , we 're only talking about one night . |
| 8 | What is different in the Banbury situation erm is that fact that you are not only talking about one school and it 's education because Banbury School draws not only it 's own eleven to sixteen year old children , who have the option to go forward to the sixth form , but of course all the children that come from the Warriner School at Bloxham , all the children that come from Drayton School , and a certain number of the children who might come from the Roman Catholic Secondary School in Banbury , so there are a whole lot more people involved than just the actual children , and that 's what made Banbury a hybrid . |
| 9 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 10 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 11 | It is reckoned that Step 1 normally takes about one year to grasp and accept in its full significance . |
| 12 | NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago . |
| 13 | The name of the Birmingham Six may haunt the British legal system , but it can always gloat about one of its greatest triumphs , the case of a notorious bunch of Scottish footballers who go by the name of The Copenhagen Five . |
| 14 | I 've only usually got about one pen . |
| 15 | But , as a general guideline , the initial consultation ( the one which includes the regression itself ) will probably take about one hour . |
| 16 | And can not last : Reliable figures are had to find , but there is little doubt that Sarawak — an area about the size of England and Wales — is today probably supplying about one quarter of the total raw hardwood exports in the world . |
| 17 | One of the problems of the dependency approach is precisely that its proponents too often speak about one country as dependent on another in a vague and unhelpful fashion . |
| 18 | The paintings originally covered about one hundred square metres . |
| 19 | I did actually quote about one of the youngsters yesterday making the point about you know , it 's all on television , there 's too much of it , I mean it was n't actually quite as blatant a comment as that , the point is made was while it 's on every channel , all the time |
| 20 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |