Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
| 2 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
| 3 | It 's Sunderland , and after about a hundred and twenty years under the sea , the lustre 's still lustrous ! ’ |
| 4 | As the ship 's bow was manoeuvred into the wind and with about a third of the anchor cable out , she ran aground at 7.30pm . |
| 5 | Latvians , 77 per cent of the population of their republic before the war , had fallen to 52 per cent in the 1989 census , and to about a third of the population of their capital city , Riga . |
| 6 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |