Example sentences of "[noun pl] about the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper .
2 Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World .
3 Prof Pierotti also has doubts about the second phase — using 600 tons of lead weights under the base of the tower on its northern side to prevent the angle of incline growing .
4 Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so .
5 But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement .
6 Mr Holdsworth expressed reservations about the seventh firm and sought a meeting with the Chief Technical Officer .
7 Spender gives numerous examples of this bias ; one is that history textbooks about the nineteenth century contain few or no references to the women 's movement , despite the fact that women were fighting to be accepted into the universities and to receive the franchise .
8 When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it .
9 Police are revealing few details about the fifth victim , who at this stage they are not linking definitely with the others .
10 He leaves he leaves all I thought Kath would have phoned me because I wrote her a letter and normally when I write her a letter she sort of , phones about the next day but she
11 Or another of those dramas about the Second World War ? ’
12 Geraldine was still thinking about who would want to watch dramas about the Second World War on a Friday night .
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