Example sentences of "talking about [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 2 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 3 | And talking about next door , why is it that neighbours , just like friends , always seem to turn up unannounced when you and he are in the middle of the most flaming and spectacular row ? |
| 4 | So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after . |
| 5 | you 're gon na be really talking about next week are n't you ? |
| 6 | For brief moments that day she could almost believe she was talking about third parties . |
| 7 | One of the things we were talking about last time was separating mixtures and solvents . |
| 8 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 9 | You 're talking about last year are n't you ? |
| 10 | Should of heard what me and Emma were talking about last night ! |
| 11 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 12 | erm and surely this , this is the implication that we were talking about last week , that erm if , if you are going to promote industrialization which is now the aim somebody 's got ta produce a surplus for investment for that . |
| 13 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 14 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |