Example sentences of "[vb past] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with a mileage clock that stopped at about 190,000 miles , he still runs to perfection , never gets clamped or a parking ticket , and blends beautifully into the city background . |
| 2 | The collision occurred at about 9.15 this morning , when there was torrential rain across much of the Cotswolds . |
| 3 | The accident occurred at about 3.30 p.m . |
| 4 | Almost total clearance occurred at about 3500 B.P. The Standing Stones of Callanish are thought to date from 3750 — 3500 B.P. |
| 5 | The next day , after sporadic incidents , violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m . |
| 6 | In an attack on a non-military target , a bomb planted several feet inside the doorway of the exclusive Carlton Club in central London , frequented by leading Conservative Party figures , exploded at about 8.30 p.m. on June 25 , injuring a porter seriously and wounding several others , and causing a fire and extensive damage . |
| 7 | The top of the haze layer came at about 7,000 ‘ ft ‘ . |
| 8 | ‘ He came at about seven . |
| 9 | The alarm came at about three in the morning , a barn-owl 's screech out of the night from Meurig on top of the ridge to Iorwerth waking and on guard at the camp . |
| 10 | The attack happened at about 8.30 a.m. yesterday morning . |
| 11 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 12 | The incident happened at about nine-thirty this morning , but details were n't released by the Civil Aviation Authority until late this afternoon . |
| 13 | Its engines were running when I arrived at about four . |
| 14 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |
| 15 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
| 16 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 17 | Unless I was awakened by the departure of a bed-fellow who had to work or study , poor girl , my day began at about nine or thereabouts , with a leisurely shower and a small black coffee . |
| 18 | Thus , while a two child family would have begun paying income tax at about average earnings in the mid-1950s , its liability to income tax began at about half average earnings by the mid-1970s . |
| 19 | Interestingly , Ritchie ( 1985 ) proposes that massive sand-blowing and renewed machair formation on Pabbay began at about 4300 B.P. Machair development had been occurring earlier as a result of rising sea-level carrying glacially derived sand across the shallow , gentle off-shore shelf to create early machair beaches and dunes ( Ritchie , 1979 ; Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | She got me she had to kiss me on the arse she fucking she had to be there thirty seconds to get the points and I farted at about ten seconds |
| 21 | The only thing even vaguely new about it was the padlock on the door , which Jekub hit at about six miles an hour . |
| 22 | School started at about 8.30 till about 3.30 and I could n't miss any lessons . |
| 23 | The 25 November fire in the Body Shop started at about 2.40 am , and the whole of the shop and its contents , including the workmen 's benches and tools , were entirely destroyed , only portions of the walls , columns and ironwork remaining . |
| 24 | I was surprised to find quite a few patches of snow near the summit , which I reached at about half past ten . |
| 25 | There 's , there 's the Racial Equality council issue , where erm , I mean I think there 's er , I would like to look again at the degree to which compliance and contract compliance can be achieved through the county council 's procedures which we looked at about four years ago , and I would see that at least as important as working and funding outside activities . |
| 26 | Mosaics cover the half-domes of the niches but only the extreme left doorway — the Porta di Sant Allipio — has its original mosaic of the thirteenth century ; this illustrates the transportation of S. Mark 's body to the new church and shows how the church looked at about 1210 , based upon Justinian 's Church of the Holy Apostles ( PLATE 34 ) . |
| 27 | We looked at about 25 or 30 , but this is about the nicest we saw . |
| 28 | A shaggy red monster catapulted from the interior , appeared briefly in the narrow passage then emerged at about fifty miles an hour from the other end with portions of his lordship 's creation dangling from its horns and neck . |
| 29 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 30 | Dad told them he went for a drink to the pub at Goldsithney , that he left at about nine and came straight home . ’ |