Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 2 | It is sold as a paste and is hardened by light ; once the paste is in the cavity , the dentist sets it by shining a blue light for about a minute . |
| 3 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 4 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 5 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 6 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 7 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 8 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 9 | The second door was the most badly warped of the three , and around.the lock a gap of about a sixteenth of an inch appeared when he put his weight against it . |
| 10 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 11 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 12 | The overall mortality reduction in the five included community studies ( fig 1 ) was highly significant , both statistically ( two tailed p<0.0000001 ) and clinically : a common odds ratio of 0.70 ( 0.62 to 0.79 ; confidence interval not adjusted for cluster design of community studies ) indicating a risk reduction of 30% — that is , a reduction of about a third in mortality from all causes . |
| 13 | We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole , with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun , at the center of our galaxy . |
| 14 | There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode . |
| 15 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 16 | Some Dell notebooks let you change the battery with the machine still switched on , by making sure there 's enough standby power to run the machine for about a minute . |
| 17 | ‘ Three men see a boy for about a second in the dark , in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise . |
| 18 | Though Ruby 's brain weight is only 400 grams , about a third that of a modern human 's , she has proved an apt pupil and now understands and uses a vocabulary of about a thousand words . |
| 19 | radiation has a range of about a hundred metres in air and is stopped by about five centimetres of lead or concrete . |
| 20 | Usually we 've finished with lunch by about a quarter past one . |
| 21 | Turn it into an oiled bowl , cover with a polythene bag and leave in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size . |
| 22 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 23 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 24 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 25 | They say the body was probably in the compost for about a week . |
| 26 | By September 1988 there were six such groups meeting fortnightly with a membership of about a dozen each . |
| 27 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 28 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 29 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 30 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |