Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] about a " in BNC.

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1 I 've got about a meg and a half .
2 So we 're in ninety three ninety four we 've got about a year and a bit before we actually have to start really doing something
3 We 've got about a hundred and fifty .
4 yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms
5 So I 've never smoked them , I 've got about a hundred upstairs
6 Worked out right , but not in sort of , I 've bought some but including the rest of them I 've got about a hundred pounds spending .
7 No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth .
8 You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ?
9 ‘ I think after you 've worked about a year in the job you find that you start off by seeing pollutions .
10 Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant .
11 ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’
12 Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century .
13 Above all , though , glasnost and greater contact with the West have brought about a fait accompli .
14 But modern refinements and materials have brought about a resurgence of the supercharger , making it a credible alternative to the turbo .
15 These changes have brought about a reduction of inequality in education throughout the region .
16 Recession , changes in business practice and the introduction of new technology have brought about a major reorganisation of service production within business .
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