Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 2 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 3 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 4 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 5 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 6 | Costs need to come down to about £1.13 before solar power makes an impact on the energy market . |
| 7 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 8 | thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour . |
| 9 | Inflation this year is now expected to be 3.5 per cent , with a similar figure next year , while unemployment is now expected to level off at about 3.1 million this year and next , reflecting the fact that companies have already shed labour faster than in previous cycles . |
| 10 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 11 | So unless there is something very wrong with elementary physics , it seems that the world is bound to warm up by about 2°C by AD 2050 . |
| 12 | Basically it 's very easy , is n't it , to get down to about seventy-seven degrees above absolute zero ? |
| 13 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |
| 14 | He was a bit of a character — he 'd have to get up at about four o'clock in the morning to cycle to work , and during the war , he was hurtling along during a blackout when suddenly the road disappeared and he went careering into a bomb crater , about 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep . |
| 15 | She often had to get up at about 4.0 a.m. to row workmen across and the ferry remained open until 10.0 p.m . |
| 16 | CPA expects to end up with about 10% of all the new aircraft on order . |