Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I 'm usually in for about quarter to eight , half seven , quarter to eight |
| 2 | but Reggie , Reggie will come in and go straight to bed , he 's been up since about quarter to four |
| 3 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 4 | NCR Corp cut prices by 11% to 19% on its NCR System 3000 model 3170 Notebook , and added a three-year extended warranty : end-user pricing is now from about $2,532 to $3,345 . |
| 5 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
| 6 | Some firms charge by the hour , roughly between £6.50 and £10 ; others by the job , which can work out at about £80 to £120-plus for a four-hour clean |
| 7 | On sentry duty one night , in the magazine of all places , I propped myself with my rifle on guard in a corner and somehow or other managed to let my feet out at about 30° to 35° to the vertical , and I fell asleep . |
| 8 | She 's just like a week ago she was she did the manager 's job and , she drops she brings Joshua down here for about quarter to nine , then she goes back up to Stop Hill with the girls |
| 9 | I 've I 've got an appointment in London at five o'clock so I 've got to leave here at about quarter to three . |
| 10 | No , I 'll have to leave at half eight get there for about quarter to nine nine o'clock |
| 11 | Estimates of the size of this underclass vary hugely from about 5% to 50% of all the poor — 2m-15m people , of whom some two-thirds are black , a tenth Hispanic . |