Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old lady owned about a third of an acre of waste land , with a ten-foot wide gully across it . |
| 2 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 3 | The 1964 survey showed about a third of councillors preferring to deal with the problems of individuals with 43 per cent preferring broad policy matters . |
| 4 | Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words . |
| 5 | The cost of those alterations was forty two thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and eighty six pence , of which the local authority paid about a quarter , namely nine thousand eight hundred and forty seven pounds . |
| 6 | When everyone has been checked , a senior Ranger leads about a dozen riders over to the park where less experienced riders are given lessons . |
| 7 | The whole thing started about a year before , when I was seventeen . |