Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 2 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 3 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 4 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 5 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 6 | If it fails , a riskier operation will begin on Thursday with about a dozen boats trying to shepherd the animals to safety . |
| 7 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 8 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 9 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 10 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |