Example sentences of "[adv] about the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 2 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 3 | On about the eighteenth floor , I hear the elevator doors open and voices cursing in Polish above . |
| 4 | On about the third day there was a bit of excited chatter between himself and Jim Thom ( the manager ) on the subject of obtaining a £100 Scottish banknote . |
| 5 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember much about the second Arse goal , scored by Merson ; maybe Sunil on the north bank can say what happened . |
| 7 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 9 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 10 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 11 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 12 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 13 | Again erm the game was to and fro , see-sawing one way and then the other , erm quite an exciting game to the uncommitted considering there were no goals scored erm in about the seventieth minute , Neil Sibble , he took the ball from the half way line on an individual run , but after beating two defenders his shot was well saved by Harding . |
| 14 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 15 | She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world . |
| 16 | I started reading more about the 19th century Swinbrook … about the great wood of Wychwood . |
| 17 | Think carefully about the next telephone call you receive . |
| 18 | Think carefully about the next letter you write . |
| 19 | I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’ |
| 20 | The family seems to have died out about the 31st year of Edward III . |
| 21 | Nowadays its appearance constitutes a convincing argument for those who believe that fiefs and vassalage were insignificant in aristocratic society before about the second quarter of the eleventh century . |
| 22 | I am talking now about the first shot . |
| 23 | She knew by the temperature that it was now about the sixth hour . |
| 24 | Never mind further in , how about the first couple of feet ? ’ |
| 25 | How about the next group , next observer |
| 26 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |
| 27 | These are lectures that are pitched directly at their level erm with the knowledge that they have round about the third year in schools , so that they can see some of the problems that physics tackles . |