Example sentences of "[verb] about an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be no climbing or hill-walking involved and you 'll only need about an hour to complete it and hand in your finished Puzzle . |
| 2 | Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells , then leave to come up to room temperature . |
| 3 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 4 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 5 | It takes about an hour to travel the length of the lake in complete silence . |
| 6 | The Ynys Hywel Trail takes about an hour . |
| 7 | Well Marg I mean I phoned Margaret , she said it takes about an hour . |
| 8 | The crossing takes about an hour and a half . |
| 9 | There are hides and a footpath around the reserve which takes about an hour to walk . |
| 10 | That takes about an hour that does . |
| 11 | A pack of chili sauce , somebody go and get to get it on , it takes about an hour . |
| 12 | It takes about an hour to take it off . |
| 13 | WHAT : Visits may be weekly or fortnightly and last about an hour , on a one-to-one basis in the prisoner 's cell ; all conversations are confidential . |
| 14 | In an NHS clinic this may be only ten to fifteen minutes , but the average practitioner seeing a patient privately likes to give about an hour to the first interview , so that a good idea of as many facets of the patient as possible can be ascertained . |
| 15 | ‘ She presented with abdominal pain and bleeding about an hour ago . ’ |
| 16 | Sadly , in the past , the authorities did not produce adequate postcards and guide books for the Clementinum , but there is now a video of its history lasting about an hour , which can be viewed in a seminar room by booking in advance . |
| 17 | Maggie only stopped about an hour this morning , she 's not feeling well . |
| 18 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 19 | Erm yeah I suppose about an hour , zing zing zing zing , it 's got a really , it 's got some really gay carols in . |
| 20 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 21 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |
| 23 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 24 | But er it should take about an hour , hour and a half . |
| 25 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 26 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 27 | To heat the oven we placed shavings and wood in between and around the tyres which usually took about an hour to heat sufficiently . |
| 28 | It left at half past seven , which meant getting up soon after half past six , and the journey took about an hour . |
| 29 | Took about an hour and a quarter to do but there you go . |
| 30 | You mean , during the day or well it took about an hour say . |