Example sentences of "about [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 2 | About 30 B.C. a poor young man from Babylon made an impression on the great rabbis of Jerusalem . |
| 3 | at the moment I can see about half well a dozen people sat on one of the buses . |
| 4 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 5 | The records of the Marine Society , a charity which prepared poor London boys for a career at sea , show a slight increase in stature up to about 1790 , a decline until about 1800 then a sharp increase up to 1830 , correlated with London labourers ' wages . |
| 6 | There were four of us in our party — Henniker and I , a young man introduced to me as Tom Spalding , and a girl of about twenty-two also an articled clerk — called Diana Robinson . |
| 7 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |