Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | About two hours preparation for about ten minutes eating . |
| 2 | Brimglade do a garment rail for about £18 ( plus £9 carriage if ordered direct ) . |
| 3 | you ca n't wash your hair for about two months or something like that . |
| 4 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 5 | Such is the case for about 50% of our patients . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 7 | The climax of the weekend will be a massed ride from the hostel to Trevor basin where a cheque for about £500 collected during the rally will be presented to the Vale of Llangollen Canal Boat Trust . |
| 8 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |
| 9 | I mean you could get erm a bedroom suite for about twenty pounds then . |
| 10 | The change in the results is because the company and its auditors discovered that , ‘ based on information that has recently come to their attention , ’ payment for about $5.3m in equipment orders from a foreign government agency , recorded in the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , will not be forthcoming on the schedule expected . |
| 11 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 12 | It should be noted that the DTI provides support for about 7000 British participants attending over 300 overseas trade fairs . |
| 13 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |
| 14 | The early training , founded on earlier arrangements of pre-existing sonata movements by other composers , was rewarded — the D major Concerto , K.175 remaining a favourite for about ten years . |
| 15 | Place one baking sheet of truffles in the freezer for about 30min . |
| 16 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 17 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 18 | Thursday afternoon for about three . . |
| 19 | In very dry weather , and light soil , some of them will want watering , not just a watering-canful , but a prolonged sprinkling with a spray attachment from a hose for about half an hour . |
| 20 | Increase oven heat to crisp the pork and cook the stuffing for about twenty minutes . |
| 21 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 22 | Then they said we do accept some responsibility for about four percent of problems . |
| 23 | We headed along the ridge for about three miles . |
| 24 | Railfreight said that , according to the operations department at York , there were too many problems with the limestone train occu-pying the single line branch for about six hours every day . |
| 25 | At a Royal Show briefing , Egil Hersleth of the Norwegian Red Cattle Society said that the Norwegians had included mastitis resistance in their selection index for about 20 years , and in that time had reduced its incidence by 1% in the national herd . |
| 26 | ‘ I had my only run of the day at approximately 11 am and after setting the hooks I had a slow , dogged fight for about five minutes before netting the fish at the second attempt , ’ said Dave . |
| 27 | THE Surrey-based management consultancy and computer services group , P-E International , has won a contract worth about £500,000 annually to develop and maintain software for the big Edinburg-based life assurance company , Standard Life . |
| 28 | So I was without money for about three weeks . |
| 29 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 30 | There was impasse for about ten minutes . |