Example sentences of "[verb] in about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 2 | A short illness occurs in about a quarter of the people infected by HIV around the time that antibodies begin to be made . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's due at a crew meeting in about an hour , so he should n't be too long . ’ |
| 4 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 5 | As you travel alongside Loch Leven the graceful shape of the Pap can be reached in about an hour up heather-covered , bouldery slopes , unpleasant in wet weather , but well worth the effort for the view to Ben Nevis and the Mamores . |
| 6 | Mutant oncogenes of the ras family are found in about a third of all cancers and as many as 80% of pancreatic tumours . |
| 7 | Probably get arrested in about a week 's time . |
| 8 | It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ? |
| 9 | I can not say precisely when I expect him to return , though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah tha yeah and I mean yeah We 'll definitely be finished in about an hour |
| 11 | In the seventies the women 's movement exposed the prevalence of violence against women and provided safe passage in the network of refuges which exist in about a hundred cities . |
| 12 | And the graduates initially were only putting in about a hundred and thirty three thousand and they came out as four and a half . |
| 13 | You 've told me that you 're putting in about a hundred million pounds for this initial expansion , is that the limit ? |
| 14 | The microwave combination 's ability to prime cook à la carte dishes in about a fifth of the usual time offers opportunities to introduce items on the menu which traditionally have meant advance ordering , for example , racks of lamb , beef Wellingtons , en croûte dishes and so on . |
| 15 | Right , well see how things go , what I would do is enquire in about a week whether that letter has come back and then we can arrange to see you . |
| 16 | It can be installed by Wine care in about a week , or you can buy the kit and dig your own hole . |
| 17 | The mixture consisted of a dialysed solution of FeCl 3 ( parchment or animal gut could be used for this ) resulting in a solution of FeO(OH) to which NaCl was added — this mixture gave a thixotropic sol that set in about an hour and closely resembled the brown-coloured holy relic in Naples . |
| 18 | It would be open to both men and women , aged from about 18 to 25 , with building due to begin in about a year 's time . |