Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 2 | If one is interested in a 3 kilobase fragment then this constitutes about 10 pg ( 10 - 1 g ) of the sample . |
| 3 | This covers about 90 charities . |
| 4 | This allows about 650 megabytes ( 650,000,000 bytes ) of data to be stored on a single disc . |
| 5 | This takes about two weeks to complete and costs £10,000 . |
| 6 | This takes about six weeks — just as you 're about to hand in your notice , it suddenly clicks and they are doing it themselves without you having to say anything . |
| 7 | This means about 285,000 machines . |
| 8 | That includes about 43,000 hectares of replanting and 56,000 hectares of new planting by both private foresters and Forest Enterprise . |
| 9 | It all weighs about forty pounds , and I carefully bumped , to good effect , into several of the more persistent reporters . |
| 10 | Each weighs about 0.1 kg . |
| 11 | That means about 13,000 people in the UK , 90,000 in Europe , and they aim for all 383,000 world-wide . |
| 12 | That leaves about 500 delegates who are still undecided , and whose views have so far been ignored . |