Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 2 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 3 | Putting in these values gives us a strength of about 3 x 10 4 MN/m 2 or about five million pounds per square inch . |
| 4 | Studies of such wavelengths , shorter than about 104 nanometres , have been difficult , but they are important to chemists because of the actions they can have on atoms and molecules . |
| 5 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |
| 6 | At wavelengths shorter than about 104 nanometres , there are no materials suitable for use as windows to transmit the radiation into the vacuum chamber . |
| 7 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 8 | It would be sensible if about fifty of these planes could be sent to Korea and the pilots could be found in Korea . |
| 9 | They are hard , coloured brown and about 5 nun long . |
| 10 | The book cases were made of deal and stained , were six feet high and about five feet six inches wide . |
| 11 | Again it 's only about four foot high and about four foot wide and a beautiful flower , a beautiful old fashioned type flower and a new , new variety of er of shrub rose and of course again it 's repeat flowering so they go on right through the season and both of them their fragrance is beautiful . |
| 12 | The Discus are about 15 months old and about four to five inches long . |
| 13 | Within observational uncertainties these are the same as the solar relative abundances , which are about 0.16 for He/H 2 and about 8 × 10 -4 for C/H 2 , compared with about 0.11 and about 8 × 10 -4 respectively for the Jovian atmosphere . |
| 14 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 15 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 16 | He had lied about this as about much else and she knew she should feel neither hurt nor surprised . |
| 17 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 18 | However , when ED is 200 cm -1 , the ratio is 0·34 ; therefore a sample of a compound with a vibration of frequency lower than about 300 cm -1 has a significant proportion of its molecules in vibrationally excited states . |
| 19 | In the dipterocarp forests of Borneo , the variation in species patterns is correlated with HCI-extractable phosphorus and magnesium where these levels are lower than about 220 ppm of phosphorus and 1200ppm magnesium . |
| 20 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 21 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 22 | Excellent , individual and about time . |
| 23 | The pollen stratigraphy indicates that Salix -dominated vegetation , with a wide variety of herbs was prominent until about 6000 B.P. At about this time Empetrum and Calluna heath , grassland with abundant Plantago lanceolata and P. maritima , and fern-rich vegetation became widespread . |
| 24 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 25 | The rapist , believed to be aged 20 to 22 years , was described as lean but muscular and about 5ft 8in tall . |
| 26 | It 's like my mum , she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in that 's how much it costs for a week . |
| 27 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 28 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 29 | Austria is probably the best bet for summer skiing because , as the skiing is only possible until about 2pm , the prettiness of the villages and the gorgeous , unspoilt alpine meadows give plenty of scope for non-ski activities . |
| 30 | On the other end of the childbearing period , infant mortality in the maternal age group 40 years and over is also very high ; in the 39 WFS countries about 24 per cent higher than in the 30–39 and about 30 per cent higher than in the 20–29 maternal age groups . |