Example sentences of "[prep] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 2 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 3 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 5 | for about the fifth time |
| 6 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 7 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 8 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 9 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 10 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 11 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 12 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 13 | Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount . |
| 14 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 15 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 16 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 17 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 18 | They 've got a body of about the right description and they 've gone to see Miss Morgan 's parents . |
| 19 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 20 | Then the reports began to flood in … a fair-haired , blue-eyed toddler of about the right age , always in the company of a Greek couple much too old to be his natural parents . |
| 21 | Thank you for your letter of 20 July 1993 on behalf of about the above proposal . |
| 22 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 23 | Chi Octantis ( 5.2 ) will be on the far side of the field ; centre it , and then you will see two more stars of about the same brightness , Sigma and Tau . |
| 24 | Such a ‘ note ’ would have a frequency of about 400 GHz and a corresponding wavelength of 0.7 mm , that is to say it is a microwave of about the same order of size as the ones used in microwave ovens Now the law relating to microwave transmission is very strict , and microwave ovens are suitably shielded to prevent the unwanted escape of potentially lethal radiation . |
| 25 | The kitchen was an extremely warm and comfortable room of about the same size . |
| 26 | ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light . |
| 27 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 28 | The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food . |
| 29 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 30 | This means that the particles that fall into one black hole will come out of another hole of about the same mass . |