Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | That figure was made up as to sixteen thousand three hundred and seventy eight pounds being two third of Mr salary plus an addition of about four thousand pounds to cover Mrs additional help . |
| 2 | Chesterton said that ‘ tradition is the democracy of the dead ’ but in France ‘ the dead ’ get a seat in parliament , together with three secretaries each , interest-free loans , subsidised foreign travel and an income of about £40,000 , half of which is tax free . |
| 3 | June Roder , 62 , a pensioner from Ilford , has an income of about £6,000 a year from pensions and savings . |
| 4 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 5 | The Good Gardens Guide 1992 ( Vermilion , £11.99 ) provides comprehensive information and an assessment of about 1,000 gardens . |
| 6 | Turnover was held at £228.6million , an rise of about £2million , by the earlier contribution from tyre distribution and the US replacement . |
| 7 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 8 | I only want to speak at this juncture on the element of that which is due to lower mortality as I call it , I E deaths and this is addressed in paragraph five and in the table at the bottom which shows an effect of about two thousand er extra households , due to lower mortality rate assumptions in our projections . |
| 9 | If ventilation rate is estimated to be 4 l/min this is equivalent to an excretion of about 140 ml/24 h in breath . |
| 10 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 11 | The different extrapolations of the normal-state resistivity produce an uncertainty of about 20% in ( 0 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've managed to organize an association of about forty thousand home workers , small vendors and contract workers , by combining a trade union approach with co-operatives . ’ |
| 13 | Together , the parents excavate a small cave 10–15cm deep , with an entrance of about 2–3cm in diameter . |
| 14 | In elections held on Sept. 29 to the city parliament in Bremen , with an electorate of about 500,000 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , which had held power in Bremen for the past 20 years , remained the largest party but lost its overall majority and almost 12 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | Experiments to test QCD give results with an error of about 10 per cent . |
| 16 | These questions appeared in pairs of parallel tests , both of which were taken by some pupils with an interval of about two months between testings . |
| 17 | It is commonly found that there is an interval of about six months between , firstly , the family member getting into recovery from his or her own " family disease " and learning to practise " tough love " and cease " enabling " the disease to continue by covering up its consequences and , secondly , the primary sufferer coming to seek recovery . |
| 18 | I them place gummed strips onto each side with an overlap of about half an inch , which I press firmly until almost dry . |
| 19 | This can be easily assembled on a suitable board or piece of stripboard and will provide an output of about 8V . |
| 20 | Halley 's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years . |
| 21 | also indicated an age of about 200,000 years . |
| 22 | The charcoal made it possible to get a carbon-14 date on the deposit , giving an age of about 10 770 years before the present . |
| 23 | The only type of housing tenure which has any effect is council tenancy : being a council tenant reduces the probability of receiving an offer by about 41% in Models I and 2 , ceteris paribus . |
| 24 | I meant to I mean she 's making an appointment for about two weeks after . |
| 25 | In these two instances a committee was formed , made up of planners and members of other departments , whose task was to consider an array of about 50 possible issues . |
| 26 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 27 | Blumler shows that , since televising , the main news programmes have included an average of about 2.6 parliamentary stories a day , and that on half of these days one of these has been the lead story . |
| 28 | There was a good deal of quarrelling — an average of about eight fights , or potential fights , per hour . |
| 29 | Apart from such influxes up to c. 30 have been seen annually , with an average of about twelve . |
| 30 | As a passage migrant des Forges and Harber give an average of about five Montagu 's Harriers a year between 1947 and 1961 but , with only about 55 recorded between 1962 and 1976 , this annual average shows a decline of about 25 per cent . |