Example sentences of "about [adj] [conj] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He landed down wind ( not that there was much wind ) , but he landed very carefully and taxied with his tail up to where I was standing , roughly about halfway or a little more up the runway . |
| 2 | There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres . |
| 3 | This has frequently happened on the Halemaumau volcano , which has a deep , circular , pit-like crater about one and a half kilometres across at its summit . |
| 4 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 5 | It is reached from the A164 by a lane about one mile long with wide verges , or by a lane about one and a half miles long from the B1248 . |
| 6 | The housing has followed a linear type of development , which has made the village about one and a half miles long . |
| 7 | The location of the box was remote , about one and a half miles from the village , but the line was busy and the box controlled the junction , so any signalman had to have his wits about him . |
| 8 | The centre of Diano Marina is about one and a half miles away . |
| 9 | This is a pleasant modern hotel , situated about one and a half miles from the old village of Ovindoli . |
| 10 | It was to the north west of the village about one and a half kilometres away , on the banks of a stream called the Rovacchia , behind a grass embankment . |