Example sentences of "be [verb] for about [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 2 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 4 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 5 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 6 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 7 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 8 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 9 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 10 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |
| 11 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 12 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 13 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 14 | Cray Computer says that at least one prototype has been running for about three weeks and hopes to have one ready to demonstrate by the end of this summer . |
| 15 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 16 | The fibres are bathed for about two hours in a solution of water and Rayosan , a chemical consisting of an ultraviolet absorber such as benzotriazole and a reactive agent such as chlorotriazine . |
| 17 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 18 | The board 's scientists estimate that radon in Wales can be blamed for about 110 deaths a year , or 6pc of the 2,000 lung cancer deaths , mostly due to smoking cigarettes , and about 85 ( 1pc ) of the 8,500 deaths annually from malignancies . |
| 19 | When fully charged , it can be used for about 10 minutes on ‘ max ’ . |
| 20 | We will be menstruating for about 30 years of our lives . |
| 21 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 22 | , 16 , who has been sailing for about seven years , said winning the championship was ‘ a surprise ’ . |
| 23 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 24 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 25 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 26 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 27 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 28 | They have n't been reviewed for about fifteen years . |
| 29 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 30 | The Colchester players left the field while police and club stewards restored order , with play being delayed for about five minutes . |