Example sentences of "[adv] about [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 2 | The travellers did move , but only about 60 yards to an adjacent site that 'll at least allow tomorrow 's livestock market to go ahead . |
| 3 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 4 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 5 | Well about ten minutes to eleven , cos he was due to ring at eleven , the phone came back on . |
| 6 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |