Example sentences of "[conj] about [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 2 | At or about the same time as the 2D was announced , Philips unveiled the PL lamp . |
| 3 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 4 | Attitudes to private schools are summarised in Figure 11.20 , which shows the percentages of people in Great Britain ( in 1987 ) who thought there should be more , fewer , none , or about the same number as then . |
| 5 | Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ? |
| 6 | ( and about a former life ) . |
| 7 | We hear very little about those localities where people are working away quietly with encouraging results , and about the many examples of excellent collaboration that protect so many children . |
| 8 | With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) . |
| 9 | Its great efficiency means that bulbs can be very small — a 500-watt halogen bulb is only about 7.5 cm ( 3 in ) long , and about the same thickness as a slim pencil or pen . |
| 10 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 11 | In 1740 Britain exported about £0.7m. to North America and about the same amount to the West Indies , but twenty years later the West Indies took £1m. and the mainland took £2m. , while imports from the West Indies ran at £1.8m. and from the mainland at £0.6m . |
| 12 | The typical person over seventy takes half as much REM sleep as the toddler , and about the same amount as a twenty-year-old . |
| 13 | We shall return to this issue later , but it surprised me to discover that the population of Waltham Forest needed more expenditure per head for such deprivation than that of Cleveland and about the same amount as Knowsley ; similar observations stem from the comparison of Hackney and Westminster , although this is hampered by including components referring to ILEA . |
| 14 | And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions . |
| 15 | In 1385–6 Lewyn was superintending building works for the Crown at Berwick-on-Tweed , and about the same time may have been concerned with the great new donjon at Warkworth for the Earl of Northumberland . |
| 16 | Harris married in 1820 and about the same time began his long association with the British Museum , where , in addition to supplying facsimiles , he served as an attendant in the reading rooms . |
| 17 | Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age . |
| 18 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |