Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 2 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |
| 3 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 4 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 5 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 6 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 7 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 8 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 9 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 10 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 11 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 12 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
| 13 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 14 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 15 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 16 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
| 17 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 18 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 19 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 20 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 21 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 22 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 23 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 24 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 25 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 26 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |
| 27 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 28 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |
| 29 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 30 | Some LEAs employ teachers to visit families with a pre-school child before they start school , usually for about an hour a week , to play with the child and involve the parents in finding out more about the child 's development and needs . |