Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 2 | Between 1870 and 1930 average completed family size decreased from five or six children to three and has now stabilized at about two . |
| 3 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 4 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
| 5 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |