Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 2 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |
| 3 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 4 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 5 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 6 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 7 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 8 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 9 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 10 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 11 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 12 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 13 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 14 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 15 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 16 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 17 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 18 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |
| 19 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 20 | Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the |
| 21 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 22 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 23 | We ended up with about a dozen assorted gin , whisky and stout bottles . |
| 24 | You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things . |
| 25 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 26 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 27 | " Intense gunfire " broke out for about an hour near the government palace in central Algiers soon after the decree was announced , Agence France-Presse reported . |
| 28 | He goes out for about an hour on a Saturday if I , if he 's forced out I said , out oh get out please yeah they 're not the ideal things that they should be wearing , but , like because the |
| 29 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 30 | back in about an hour and a half 's time so erm that 's good timing actually . |