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Example sentences for "about fifteen"

  • Brown the mixture in the oven (about fifteen minutes).

  • Southeast of Banes, about fifteen miles, we reach the entrance of the Bay of Nipe, considered one of the finest and best protected harbors in the world.

  • Cienfuegos Bay extends from southeast to northwest a distance of about fifteen miles, with a varying width of from three to seven miles.

  • Having examined whatever was deemed worthy of attention here, I drove on about fifteen miles to Willow Springs.

  • Hold the right hand, flat, palm downward, before the body; then throw it over on its back to the right, making a curve of about fifteen inches.

  • Tell me is: Place the flat right hand, palm upward, about fifteen inches in front of the right side of the face, fingers pointing to the left and front; then draw the hand inward toward and against the bottom of the chin.

  • There half reclining was a youth of about fifteen, who had been aroused from his slumbers by the light.

  • The Steam Horse was now running, or rather trotting away at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, for Frank knew that he was off his course, and therefore there was no use hurrying.

  • Then the rods were pulled, and at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, just an easy jog for the horse, away they went.

  • The houses or huts of the Pawnees are circular, except at the part where the door is placed; and, from this part, there is a projection of about fifteen feet.

  • They had travelled eastward about ten days, at the rate of about fifteen or eighteen miles a day, when they saw the river for the last time; it then appeared rather narrower than at Timbuctoo.

  • During the first ten days they proceeded eastward, at the rate of about fifteen to twenty miles a day, the prisoners and most of the negroes walking, the officers riding, two upon each camel or dromedary.

  • We averaged about thirty miles a day, stopped one day at Santa Barbara, where I saw Colonel Burton, and so on by the usually traveled road to Monterey, reaching it in about fifteen days, arriving some days in advance of the Lexington.

  • What, in those early days, had seemed a serious criticism offered against my claim, was that I had exceeded possible speed limits by asserting an average of about fifteen miles a day.

  • Below this were other successive crusts, and a porous snow in coarse crystals, with a total depth of about fifteen inches.

  • At the end of about fifteen hours, a stir about our camp suddenly awoke us.

  • But will come and see you in about fifteen days if you will send me Three Hundred and Fifty ($350.

  • The springs are enclosed by small evaporating basins, the largest of which is about fifteen feet in diameter, and is crusted with a remarkably pure deposit of sodic chloride.

  • At one place in about fifteen minutes, with a single spoon hook, one of my men pulled out eighteen fine trout, some of which were brought to camp, strung on a pole and photographed by me.

  • He did not know if there would be frost about the same time around Edmonton, but the two years he happened to be in Peace river district there would be about fifteen degrees of frost at night.

  • In the evening I walked down to the Pueblo camp and there learned the following particulars: These Indians who are now here are of the Shoshones, about fifteen or twenty in number, and several women among them.

  • Opposite to where we are halted, we can see a ravine running up the bluffs and at the foot, a flat bottom of about fifteen acres.

  • About seven o'clock it commenced raining again from the southeast and rained heavily, consequently the brethren quit ferrying, leaving three companies of about fifteen wagons on the other side.

  • We arrived in a few hours at Cooptee, which is about fifteen miles, and immediately set about covering the houses, which was soon completed.

  • On one occasion, among the victims brought in to the Turkish camp was a pretty young girl of about fifteen.

  • The boat consisted of two small canoes lashed together, five feet apart, with beams placed across, and the whole boarded over so as to provide a platform, or deck, about fifteen feet by ten.

  • At Bagma our travellers were struck by the size and shape of the huts, some of them being from forty to sixty feet long, about fifteen broad, and from ten to twelve feet high.

  • About fifteen hundred of the best operators in the country were at the front on the Federal side alone, and several hundred more had enlisted.

  • As a motor, it was wound to run at maximum speed to develop a torque equal to about fifteen horse-power with 220 volts.

  • The General did so, and in about fifteen seconds he said: "Well, Edison, I must go now.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about eighty; about fifteen; about forty; about fourteen; about latitude; about one; about right; about some; about south; about the; about the same date; about the same size; about thirty; about three; about time; deep reverie; great wave; knew you would come; next summer; pastry flour; personal danger; phosphuretted hydrogen; proceeds from; social values; thirteenth century; would rise