Example sentences of "at about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 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 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 14 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 15 | At about the same time , British Telecom are also hoping to introduce a formal code of practice . |
| 16 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 17 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 18 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 19 | At about the same time came the Immorality Act , which made sexual relations between different races a crime against the state . ’ |
| 20 | At about the same time , Nadia Thalmann began work on a new project at the University of Geneva , animating synthetic actors using artificial intelligence and robotics . |
| 21 | At about the same time , the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology was working on what it ambitiously claimed would ultimately be the first full-length computer-generated feature , The Works . |
| 22 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |
| 23 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 24 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 25 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 26 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 27 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 28 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 29 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |
| 30 | 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 . |