Example sentences of "[adv] after about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after about thirty five minutes what are you actually taking in ? |
| 2 | Er now after about two years , er you got more proficient and then , of course , you could also help with the stripping down of the waggons . |
| 3 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |
| 4 | If we choose co = e4 , then after about 18 steps , four successive columns are unc These show very slow convergence ; indeed , the elements show a near-arithmetical progression . |
| 5 | And then after about eighteen months er Sterk came along with the Road Traffic Act , you see ? |
| 6 | However , feeding is critical and soldiers who are unfed ca n't fight , indeed after about forty-eight hours they fall over ! |
| 7 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |