Example sentences of "about [num] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , about fifty year ago a suit of staple tweed cost £3 10s . |
| 2 | About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased , and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet . |
| 3 | About 500 years later the Romans also favoured this site and built a villa here . |
| 4 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 5 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 6 | ( Granted , there were a few flaws … but hey , ‘ MY PEN RAI ’ ( ‘ never mind ’ ) , as we say about 100 times here a day in Thailand ! ) |
| 7 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 8 | but the particular council which is Elmbridge District Council , started off after last year 's victory by the Liberal Democrats , by moving to one full council meeting a week , lasting about six hours once a week . |
| 9 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 10 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 11 | About three miles away a failed wizard was hanging by his hands from a high branch in a beech tree . |
| 12 | About ten years ago a near science block was built next to the main block . |
| 13 | About ten years ago the agriculture ministry , which runs the agency , made a half-hearted attempt to staunch its losses . |
| 14 | About ten years ago the Hendersons gave the Los Angeles County Museum of Art a hoard of Korean ceramic shards from known kiln sites , but loaned no works from the collection . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the new machines were not sufficiently reliable , and about ten years later the mill ceased production . |
| 16 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 17 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 18 | We got rid of all the rubbish , put it in and started packing and erm about five minutes later the man from next door came out . |
| 19 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 20 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 21 | Collecting and holding the toads in containers until about 23.00 hours when the traffic dies down , as we did in our study , is a much more effective way of reducing road casualties . |
| 22 | Eventually they identified a shortlist of about twenty areas where the rock formations were considered suitably stable and dry to keep the nuclear waste containers intact over the long timescales envisaged . |
| 23 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 24 | About four days later a similar child was admitted with identical symptoms of croup . |
| 25 | ABOUT FOUR YEARS ago the British popular media suddenly discovered the silicon chip . |
| 26 | Until about four years ago the return was produced by hand ( and its equivalents still are in some areas ) , a time consuming and laborious job . |
| 27 | He organised a meeting of some of the more militant people who had attended the NICRA meeting and about two months later the DHAC was launched . |
| 28 | About two years ago the playgroup leader left and I was asked to take charge . |
| 29 | About two weeks later the moult to L4 takes place , further migration then occurs in the liver and , by 6-8 weeks post-infection , larvae can be found subperitoneally around the hepatorenal ligament . |
| 30 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |