Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
| 3 | Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . |
| 4 | Technical developments in both polyethylene film and paper production have led to material savings of about a third for the same performance , good news environmentally and commercially . |
| 5 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 6 | That method can be used to distances of about a hundred light years . |
| 7 | The terror suspects were tailed around the clock by surveillance teams of about a dozen officers each . |
| 8 | Erm , the consequence of that is that at conception the sex ratio in the white U S population is about a hundred and twenty males to about a hundred females . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 10 | Next , hold the foot between both your hands for about a minute or two to soothe it . |
| 11 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
| 12 | It is thought that similar but even larger black holes , with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun , occur at the centers of quasars . |
| 13 | You must pay full stamps for about a quarter of the qualifying years in your working life to get any basic pension at all — even at a reduced rate . |
| 14 | Each autumn , collective ministerial choices of about a dozen topics for PAR studies were to be made in co-operation with the CPRS . |
| 15 | Abnormal total reflux time ( 24 hour pH recording ) in four of 14 patients studied contrasts with about a 10% incidence 6 months- 2 years after fundoplication . |
| 16 | They require little attention beyond cutting back long canes by about a third in early spring , just as growth begins to stir , and then trimming back any remaining side shoots to no more than three buds , taking out old wood that becomes dark and barky to promote new growth from the base — and , of course , removing the flower trusses as they fade . |
| 17 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |
| 18 | Plus a certain amount for increments of about a hundred and twenty thousand . |
| 19 | The survey will be carried out using a questionnaire in interviews with about a hundred MPs , chosen to represent the main grouping within parties , and ten Peers who have shown interest in welfare issues . |