Example sentences of "at about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 2 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 3 | Although numbers in our main sample were hardly sufficient to show differences between people of different ethnic groups , West Indians and Asians both seemed to use credit at about the average level . |
| 4 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 5 | Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings . |
| 6 | At about the halfway point the Luggage leapt from its bed of splinters , gaped briefly in mid-air , and snapped shut . |
| 7 | There would , therefore be this degree of uncertainty At about the actual time at which the radiation was released . |
| 8 | When the temperature peak was at about the normal time , the patient showed a temporary remission of symptoms ; when the temperature was timed too early she tended to feel depressed ; and when it was timed too late she tended to experience mania . |
| 9 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 10 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 11 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 12 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 13 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 14 | On the F models , with the 9406 models using a new BiCMOS CPU , IBM claims performance gains of up to 60% — a 15% to 45% range is more realistic , with the F50 the star — at about the same price as the E models they replace . |
| 15 | The last of these classes consists of the famous eight medreses which Mehmed II had built round his mosque in Istanbul : the mosque itself was finished in 875/1470–1 , and the medreses were finished presumably at about the same date . |
| 16 | Obviously , if two objects are physically connected they must be at about the same distance from us , and yet many of these Arp associations include objects with redshifts that ‘ ought ’ to place them far apart along the line of sight . |
| 17 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 18 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 19 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 20 | It is important that blocks are at about the same level of complexity within one diagram . |
| 21 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 22 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 23 | In 1985 , capital expenditure for air pollution control was estimated to have cost industry $10.5 billion , with operation and maintenance costs at about the same level . |
| 24 | An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date . |
| 25 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 26 | At about the same period Youatt remarked that most of Somerset 's cattle were good red Devons but that a few in northern Somerset were particoloured Devons and some in the west of the county were yellowish rather than deep red or were sheeted ( that is to say , with broad white belts ) . |
| 27 | At about the same period the Mongol-speaking Buryats moved into the steppes and forests around the southern end of Lake Baikal , where they subjugated the previous inhabitants . |
| 28 | This was in the 19th century and at about the same period more graves were found in Upper Halling , on the south side of Chapel Lane . |
| 29 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 30 | There was only a weak detection at 408MHz , again at about the same phase . |