Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 2 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 3 | An Assembly of Citizens of the Russian Federation , bringing together about 4,000 Yeltsin supporters , met on April 5 . |
| 4 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 5 | The pulsar lies within about 2.3 arcmin of the centre of the target cluster , well within the tidal radius of 9 arcmin , although it is outside the core radius of 8arcsec . |
| 6 | ‘ Which is a weird coincidence — since both crimes appear to have been committed within about twenty-four hours of each other . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 8 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |
| 9 | Er it has been brought to my attention that the R S P B erm which I think you all know that , for one reason or another , can call upon the membership of eight hundred and seventy thousand individuals and our sport was something between two point five to three million active participants , slightly depending on the definition , has only about two percent as personal members of the R Y A contributing directly . |
| 10 | For a start , the brain of a bee contains only about 300,000 neurones . |
| 11 | An estimated 1,000,000 tonnes would go to Russia in return for oil , but would buy only about 1,500,000 tonnes , whereas , Castro stated , under previous Soviet agreements one tonne of sugar had bought 7.5 tonnes of oil . |
| 12 | Taylor and Urquhart observe that , for the great majority of research materials , use of an item declines rapidly about three years after publication , so that after this period any book has an equally low chance of being used . |
| 13 | As seen in optical section , it has typically about five times the actin content of an ordinary band of cortical actin ( Fig. 4i ) . |
| 14 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 15 | Extending his psychic sense of presence , he felt how the battle inside Vasilariov was congealing , slowing and centring desperately about fifteen kilometres north of the hotel . |
| 16 | Your father passed away about four minutes ago . ’ |
| 17 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 18 | According to tests with the missile in the US , of the missiles that successfully penetrate as far as their target , half will land within about 12 m of the aiming point . |
| 19 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 20 | Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution . |
| 21 | But 1992 had seen only about 165 houses were sold , against 306 in 1991 . |
| 22 | This happens only about 13 times in each century , but such transits have now been the subject of detailed astronomical scrutiny for more than two hundred years . |
| 23 | The whole concrete structure was sunk into the ground so it seemed only about four feet high . |
| 24 | Anyway perhaps if if I come back to you after next Tuesday afternoon when I 've got a meeting to talk just about that subject with the deputy and see what options are going to come forward . |
| 25 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 26 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 27 | IN all , firecrews pumped away about 150,000 gallons of flood water , |
| 28 | ‘ She came here about three months ago and made your acquaintance , did n't she ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then you 'll know Heather came here about three months ago . |
| 30 | Moved here about fifteen months ago . |