Example sentences of "[prep] about [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked after about fifteen children from dawn to dusk and it was in their belief to take in and embrace all children in the love and light of Zephandra Butolphi . |
| 2 | After about four weeks of generous feeding , the fry change from fish shaped to Angelfish shaped . |
| 3 | If he wanted unglamorous , he should see what she looked like in surgical greens after about twelve hours in the OR , though , of course , she could n't even hint at that . |
| 4 | After about two minutes of this , I heard the door open . |
| 5 | It was only after about two years of Ph.D . |
| 6 | One day , after about two months of fairly fruitless endeavour , the reason struck me . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , after about eighteen months in technological purdah , he emerged , having resolved most of the equipment problems . |
| 8 | After about seventy-two hours of sleep loss , " it is impossible to prevent subjects from obtaining brief " microsleeps " " which ( when EEG measures are made ) have been shown to be indistinguishable from brief periods of natural sleep . |
| 9 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 10 | After about 30 seconds of mellow techno abstraction from St Etienne , Richard asks earnestly , ‘ Which song is this ? ’ |
| 11 | The station was recaptured after about three hours by soldiers loyal to the government , after firing in which two soldiers were killed . |
| 12 | These are tended by both parents and hatch after about three days at a temperature of 80–82°s ; F. |
| 13 | After about 400 years of the papingo shoots , table graves in the vicinity of the clock tower have been badly pitted by arrowheads . |
| 14 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 15 | We then escorted this group of about thirty souls into a low warehouse littered with primitive sewing machines and spindles and bolts of cloth . |
| 16 | She had a very strong hull for her type , was capable of about thirty knots with her twin Sabre engines , and I found her surprisingly sea-kindly . |
| 17 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 18 | In light rain I have measured an increase of about 8 knots in the speed for the pre-stall buffet and stall of a K13 , although the stall itself did not seem to have changed in character . |
| 19 | Diamond has a density of about 3.5 grams per c.c. , polyethylene about 0.92 ; when we have made all the necessary corrections however we find that we ought to expect an E of about 10 x 10 6 p.s.i . |
| 20 | This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . |
| 21 | CAR giant Ford is considering a major restructuring plan involving tendering out work which would lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs throughout Europe , including over 1,000 in the UK , according to a confidential report . |
| 22 | The top 50–100 m of ocean forms the polar mixed layer , a layer diluted by fresh water ( mostly from rivers ; see below ) to salinity of about 32 parts per thousand ( ppt ) . |
| 23 | The most important have been the Dolgellau area of North Wales , where auriferous quartz veins in Cambrian shales have yielded a total of about 4 tonnes of gold , and the Pumpsaint area of Central Wales where auriferous quartz veins cut pyritic Silurian shales . |
| 24 | But according to him it 's quite simple to make a bomb provided you can get hold of about eight kilograms of plutonium , a lump about the size of an orange . ’ |
| 25 | A restrained right foot should coax up to 26mpg and a range of about 450 miles on an 80-litre ( 17.6-gallon ) tankful of unleaded . |
| 26 | The golden-winged sunbird ( Nectarinia reichenowi ) defends a territory of about 1000–2500 flowers for purposes of feeding ; it feeds on the nectar provided by the flowers . |
| 27 | As indicated by data in Table 1 , there is a difference of about 4–6 years in average age of women at first birth between the developed and developing regions . |
| 28 | He had opened the loose-box door and disappeared inside , returning leading a bay horse of about fifteen hands by the halter . |
| 29 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 30 | Below the front windows was a box extension of about two feet in length , so placed as to increase the space of the interior . |