Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Brown , professor of microbiology at Heriot-Watt University received about £30 000 from Speywood last year to develop a method of producing protein A continuously . |
| 2 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 3 | An unusual cross-shaped Renaissance building erected about 1600 by Sir Thomas Tresham to symbolise the Passion . |
| 4 | It is hoped that mines placed about 600ft below the new fissure will create depressions to contain or restrain the lava and disperse the flows into rivulets which could cool quickly , slowing it down . |
| 5 | Begin with a 25 watt bulb placed about 5 cm above the soil . |
| 6 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 7 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 8 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |
| 9 | His analysis of the occupations recorded in the Northampton militia list for 1777 , which names men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if required , reveals that craftsmen formed about half of Northampton 's adult male workforce . |
| 10 | The cars stopped about twenty yards from the front of the cottage . |
| 11 | The car parked about a hundred yards from the loch and two men , clad in town clothes , got out and ambled over : ‘ Any luck ? ’ they inquired . |
| 12 | They had n't cared to join the small crowd of spectators in the old stand , but had remained in the car parked about twenty-five yards behind one of the goals . |
| 13 | Even standing as independents in April 's elections , their candidates won about 13 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | The original CED typesetting tape occupied about 27 MBytes . |
| 15 | The programme included about half-a-dozen hymns and a selection of choruses from the Messiah . |
| 16 | Thornton and Higgs were told that each boat caught about 2000 dolphins each year , travelling up to 180 km ( 1 12 miles ) offshore to find their quarry . |
| 17 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 18 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |
| 19 | In 1987 , turnover reached about £500m . |
| 20 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | One polar bear spent about five days on Endicott 's Main Production Island ( MPI ) before it was captured by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ) crews and removed . |
| 22 | ( a ) Eyemouth is a busy fishing port specialising in shellfish , ( b ) The cannons are 32-pounders cast about 1830. ( c ) Coldingham ( off route ) ; site of an 11th-century Benedictine priory , largely destroyed by Cromwell 's men in 1648. ( d ) St Abb 's Quiet fishing village with picturesque harbour . |
| 23 | It is a modern building built about thirty years ago . |
| 24 | They reckon Germany done about ten , fifteen minutes combat time over the , over the |
| 25 | In outline , Atrakhasis ( known from copies made about 1600 BC ) has some similarity to parts of Genesis 2–8 . |
| 26 | Including all remuneration ( the majority of managing directors received a bonus averaging around one-fifth of their salary ) , half of all managing directors received about 14 per cent or more . |
| 27 | He said the council received about £200,000 a year to act as the collecting agent for the water authority but it cost nearly double that to do it . |
| 28 | An old lady owned about a third of an acre of waste land , with a ten-foot wide gully across it . |
| 29 | The girl looked about sixteen and recently aware of her considerable attractions . |
| 30 | These use a simple pair of microphones spaced about 14cm apart on either side of a baffle or dummy head , to simulate our normal two-eared listening situation . |