Example sentences of "in about the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 2 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 3 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 4 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 5 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 6 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |