Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female barn owl is usually taller than the male , about 14½ inches to his 13 , and also usually darker . |
| 2 | The typical Lincolnshire windmill was the brick-built tapering towermill which varied in height from about fifty feet to ninety feet and was surmounted by an ogee cap carrying four to eight sails and also the fantail . |
| 3 | The uterus itself will lessen in size and weight during the next two months after delivery ( from about 500 grammes to around 60 ! ) and ovulation will recommence . |
| 4 | Several sites exist near to Seynes , including the municipal site at Uzes , and at Riviere de Theyrargues and Fumades ( about eight km to the north ) and Saint Jean de Ceyrargues , a similar distance to the south . |
| 5 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 6 | The Bank of Thailand issued a circular to all the country 's banks on Feb. 27 ordering them to give financial information about 22 ex-ministers to the AVC . |
| 7 | There are no more than about 300 complaints to the Lay Observer each year and it is rare for the Lay Observer to criticize The Law Society 's handling of a complaint . |
| 8 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 9 | Charge times currently range from about 12 hours to 5 minutes . |
| 10 | Well with about forty visits to er Walsall , the council and different other departments |
| 11 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 12 | It was , they assessed , about forty-five miles to Gilsland by the way they would go . |
| 13 | Set it , not frontally , but at an angle onto the subject from a position alongside the camera , and aim it downwards at about forty-five degrees to the horizontal . |
| 14 | First , the females are extremely fecund , one worm being able to contribute about 700 eggs to each gram of faeces per day , and egg counts of 15,000 epg are not uncommon in pups . |
| 15 | — cutting US strategic weapons by about 25 per cent , from about 12,000 war-heads to 9,000 ; |
| 16 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 17 | My Old Dobbin syndrome , aided and abetted by friendship with Albert Rhys Williams , was the basic incentive for hitch-hiking about 12,000 miles to and from the interior of Russia during the holidays that summer . |
| 18 | Speaking at a recent Financial Times conference on financial reporting in the UK , Nigel Stapleton of Reed International , chairman of the 100 Group 's technical committee , disclosed that the ASB had received about 100 responses to its draft proposals issued last April . |
| 19 | The wreckage of the plane lay about 100 metres to the seaward side of the runway , where it had broken in two just in front of the wing section . |
| 20 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 21 | We took off within minutes and flew about 100 miles to Swift Current , at which point the storm had increased to such velocity that Buchanan made an emergency landing and we all found a hotel in the town for the night . |
| 22 | Would you be willing to deliver about 10 newsletters to houses nearby ? |
| 23 | If you have to stand for a while at work or in a queue , it would be helpful to have one leg behind the other with the feet at about 45 degrees to each other . |
| 24 | Start with the switch at about 45 degrees to the horizontal and adjust as necessary . |
| 25 | You were n't more than from the hall you were about six foot to the door to the master bedroom . |
| 26 | There was a drop of about six feet to the top of the window beneath , and an equal drop to that on the first floor . |
| 27 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 28 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 29 | I got one with a big chunky battery , it should 've lasted about six month to a year |
| 30 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |