Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for about [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 2 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 3 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 4 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 5 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 6 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 7 | The fibres are bathed for about two hours in a solution of water and Rayosan , a chemical consisting of an ultraviolet absorber such as benzotriazole and a reactive agent such as chlorotriazine . |
| 8 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 9 | The board 's scientists estimate that radon in Wales can be blamed for about 110 deaths a year , or 6pc of the 2,000 lung cancer deaths , mostly due to smoking cigarettes , and about 85 ( 1pc ) of the 8,500 deaths annually from malignancies . |
| 10 | When fully charged , it can be used for about 10 minutes on ‘ max ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 12 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 13 | They have n't been reviewed for about fifteen years . |
| 14 | The Colchester players left the field while police and club stewards restored order , with play being delayed for about five minutes . |
| 15 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 16 | The house is abandoned when hunting is unproductive , the local fields are exhausted or the head of the village dies , so that in general one site is used for about six years . |
| 17 | On-site accommodation at Jordanstown is provided for about 680 students in residential blocks , six-bedroomed houses , flats and study bedrooms in Halls . |
| 18 | On-site accommodation at Jordanstown is provided for about 680 students in residential blocks , six-bedroomed houses , flats and study bedrooms in Halls . |
| 19 | This gradient is maintained for about 100 metres . |
| 20 | A single egg is laid , usually from November onwards , and is incubated for about eight weeks . |
| 21 | AN ASSOCIATION for all former pupils and staff of St Hugh 's School , Birkenhead , has been established for about four years and its main function is an annual reunion mass held on or near the Feast of St Hugh of Lincoln . |
| 22 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 23 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 24 | Told that it was a fox 's cairn , he insisted on climbing up by himself to have a look at it , and was gone for about twenty minutes . |