Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , on a gentle 5° slope , the possible speed may range from about 27mph to not being able to move at all . |
| 2 | The signed Hawkins monument in Boughton-under-Blean , Kent , must date from about 1618 : it shows Evesham 's skill in the expressive relief carving which is rare in early seventeenth-century English sculpture . |
| 3 | This bottled preserve should keep for about six months . |
| 4 | These may be minimised by prophylactic penicillin V therapy , which should begin at about six months of age . |
| 5 | Most drains and sewers perform their task by gravity flow , and to ensure that the pipes are self-cleansing they should flow at about 1.5 metres per second . |
| 6 | According to our size , we should die at about 25 years , by which age we should have also run out of heartbeats , having used up well over 800 million . |
| 7 | The design , which comes in several colours , should sell for about £25 . |
| 8 | An optional rechargeable battery is available for £40 , which should last for about 100 sheets , and takes 6 hours to charge using the standard power supply . |
| 9 | All lectures should start at about 7.30pm and last ( dependent on question and answer period ) for two hours . |
| 10 | We come back from fetching the children together , and then she 'll stay till about 6.30 . |
| 11 | They 'll only be there for about twenty four hours , they 'll go for about a week but they 're spending most of it with er , Deborah down at erm , Bambury |
| 12 | German engineering output could grow at about 5% . |
| 13 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 14 | Porch kits start from under £1,000 ; a purpose-made brick-built porch could cost from about £1,500 . |
| 15 | And er it would you would have tea at about er half past three , and probably the concert 'd start at about half past , about five o'clock , half past . |
| 16 | Similar calculations for other populations of toads will probably produce the same results , although the actual sex ratio may vary from about 2:1 to 5:1 according to the size of the population and the rates of mortality . |
| 17 | A combination of I would think of about twelve passes but tha they switched the play from side to side |
| 18 | In the early 1960s county planners were estimating that mining employment in the Cramlington area would fall to about 2500 jobs by 1971 compared with the 6000 jobs which had existed in 1955 . |
| 19 | For example , if the bid-price were £95 for a Bill with a face value of £100 , the government would be paying a 3-monthly interest rate of about 5 per cent ; if the bid-price rose to £98 , the 3-monthly interest rate would fall to about 2 per cent . |
| 20 | A test would consist of about 20 ‘ lines ’ , each of about 20 linked circles . |
| 21 | The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) had estimated in 1986 that the 6,034 landfills then open would decline to about 2,000 by 1992 . |
| 22 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 23 | No price has yet been discussed , but rumours suggest that Anglo would sell for about £30m . |
| 24 | Analysts calculate that Chen needs another $60m to get the machine into manufacturing and start marketing a four-processor configuration , which would sell for about $10m ; the latest plan had the machine growing to 32 processors . |
| 25 | Cos there 's about a twenty five percent in workers per hectare , which actually would lead to about a third a third increase in the provision . |
| 26 | Mr John MacGregor , the Education Secretary , said in a Commons written reply that the 1990 main grant and full year loan would amount to about 25 per cent more than the 1989 grant for most students . |
| 27 | You 've sent me five handwritten pages of quotations ( some of which concern horses — genetically manipulated animals ) , which in the seven-point-solid type that my Bible is printed in would come to about half a page . |
| 28 | Updated , that award would come to about £140,500 in terms of the £ in December 1992 . |
| 29 | This would continue until about 11 pm , when they would begin the long drive home . |
| 30 | It was initially envisaged that the work would last for about half a term , but provided that most other subject requirements , were also being met , the " thematic-driven " approach could have encompassed a full term 's work . |