Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( By way of illustration , in the mid-1980s the catalogue of IBM 's mainframe-computer manuals occupied about three hundred pages with about fifty titles per page . ) |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll need a … crowbar or something , about fifty metres of rope and a torch . |
| 3 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 4 | If you visit a major cat show today you will find that there are about fifty breeds on display there , in addition to the many different colour forms and ‘ sub-breeds ’ , all minor variations of well-established breeds , which need not concern us here . |
| 5 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 6 | He was considerably younger than Jonadab , being about fifty years of age . |
| 7 | Taunton , Massachusetts-based Kopin Corp says it has developed a transmissive 640 by 480 active matrix liquid crystal display formed from a single crystal of silicon : the AMLCD Smart Slide imaging device has a resolution of about 500 lines per inch , the level seen as necessary for high resolution imaging . |
| 8 | But within the next few weeks labourers will start digging the foundations for a plant at Gwithian , on Cornwall 's northern shore , which will produce about 500 tonnes of tin per year . |
| 9 | The rapid progress with the construction of the railway , the past couple of weeks having witnessed the excavation of a cutting and preparation of about 500 feet of track bed , had enabled about 200 feet of track to be ready for the open day . |
| 10 | For a start , it 's high in calories — about 180 calories per pint of beer , 80–100 calories per glass for a dry white wine . |
| 11 | It is about eight inches in length and runs from the urinary bladder , through the prostate gland , under the front of the pelvis , and , passing through the corpus spongiosum , it ends at the tip of the glans penis in an opening called the urethral meatus . |
| 12 | The round cheeses were about eight inches in diameter and about two inches thick . |
| 13 | But according to him it 's quite simple to make a bomb provided you can get hold of about eight kilograms of plutonium , a lump about the size of an orange . ’ |
| 14 | I usually allow about eight mouthfuls per person for catering . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a Chieftain auxiliary generator about eight miles down Bayonet Trail , ’ he briefs his crew . |
| 16 | By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors . |
| 17 | Half the remainder die in old age , losing about eight years of life . |
| 18 | Every year , about eight weeks before Christmas , we began to talk about laying down a ‘ brew ’ . |
| 19 | The migrating motor complex consists of a cyclical period of activity with a length of about 120 minutes in man . |
| 20 | The under 13's have already achieved success with the team having reached the final of the 1990 Under 13 's Scottish Cup , involving about 120 teams in total . |
| 21 | About 120 bales of barley straw , valued at about £1,400 , were destroyed in the blaze at a Dutch barn in Long Road , Lawford , near Manningtree . |
| 22 | Tatham 's subsea satellite gas well is producing about 12.5 million cubic feet of natural gas and about 2,300 barrels of condensate per day . |
| 23 | Most drains and sewers perform their task by gravity flow , and to ensure that the pipes are self-cleansing they should flow at about 1.5 metres per second . |
| 24 | Unravel and flatten about 1.5 metres of paper twist and cut in half along its length . |
| 25 | From this evidence , the probable loss at the Foxton Summit Level would be about 1.5 inches per day . |
| 26 | The plethora of dams will uproot over a million people — including many tribals — and submerge about 850,000 acres of forest and 500,000 acres of cultivated land — almost as much as it will irrigate . |
| 27 | 18 ‘ units ’ is in ¾ bottle of spirits OR about 2 bottles of wine OR 9 pints of beer . |
| 28 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |
| 29 | Ideally , the ratio of calcium to phosphorus should be about 2 parts of calcium to 1 of phosphorus , and at its very lowest 1:1 . |
| 30 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |