Example sentences of "about [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a hell of a lot of smoke about and a great deal of noise . |
| 2 | There were a few light clouds about and a cooling breeze , and everywhere the hawthorns were heavy with may and the hedgerows thick with wild garlic , campion , bluebells and the little star-flowers of chickweed . |
| 3 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 4 | I suppose this opens the debate about whether a limited edition guitar like this one , which has a projected run of only 200 units , is ever likely to be used as an everyday instrument , or whether it is destined to end up mute behind glass in a collection somewhere . |
| 5 | It still leaves room for doubt about whether a fifty-year cycle is evident from the data . |
| 6 | Nor does he feel compelled to decide later cases " by analogy " to earlier ones , at least when there is room for disagreement about whether a later case is really like or unlike them . |
| 7 | The Minister must realise that the public are not that interested in boring details about procedures — for example , about whether a public utility is supposed to take a maximum of two weeks or three weeks to reply to a letter of complaint . |