Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 2 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 3 | You go there God he only looks about five Mark , do n't he look like Mark though ? |
| 4 | But , if I ever have it done again I 'm going to buy those brass things , and , it only costs about five pounds more . |
| 5 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 6 | The company , which only employs about 40 people on an annual turnover of £3m , stands to enhance its reputation and profitability if the Thompson Grenoble venture is a success . |
| 7 | Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ? |
| 8 | Vasectomy is usually carried out under local anaesthetic , and the whole operation only takes about 10 minutes . |
| 9 | Only takes about five minutes . |
| 10 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 11 | What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes |
| 12 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 13 | The speed of separation — the solution only takes about 30 seconds to move through the outer tube — also prevents too much heating . |
| 14 | This is an Italian dish of pasta quills tossed in a hot and spicy tomato sauce which only takes about 20 minutes to make . |
| 15 | She only spends about 8 hours without food and fluid and is soon able to compensate for this . |
| 16 | Harmondsworth , which normally holds about forty men , women and children , would sometimes have up to four cots per small room . |
| 17 | He already has about three quarters of the membership on his computer database of members ' electronic expertise , so the amount of extra work will not be too great , but it will be a considerable relief to me . |
| 18 | Although one or two birds may summer fairly regularly in Chichester or Pagham Harbours , the summer population rarely exceeds about 10 birds ; seven summered at Rye Harbour in 1968 . |
| 19 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 20 | it usually takes about three working days and er |
| 21 | It usually takes about three people to hold him . |
| 22 | She still does about 100 concerts every year with her six-piece band . |
| 23 | At present the world probably contains about 250 tonnes of this sort of plutonium and 1,500 tonnes of the uranium . |
| 24 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 25 | Is it for a nice , Brian-type P R interview , in which case you think , ‘ Oh good , that probably means about ten minutes ? |
| 26 | Suppression of anger also brings about other symptoms such as headaches and insomnia . |
| 27 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |
| 28 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 29 | California now has about 10 structures with base isolation . |
| 30 | The Garden now has about 80 PCs , used by approximately 100 staff , about half of the total workforce . |