Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 2 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 3 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 4 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |
| 5 | to understand that be sorry after about five minutes . |
| 6 | So I played bass for about four years in that group with Stevie . |
| 7 | Uncover and cook on high for about 5 minutes , until the liquid is reduced . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt high for about four days , not thinking about anything but caring for her . ’ |
| 9 | Microwave on high for about 6 mins , until the fish is cooked through . |
| 10 | Owen received aromatherapy massage weekly for about three months . |
| 11 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 12 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 13 | Our study shows that CT imaging was adequate in about one-third of patients at hospitals with limited experience of testicular cancer , which may contribute to the lower survival of patients treated in local hospitals . |
| 14 | It lay derelict from about 1870 until after the 1914–18 War , when it was restored . |
| 15 | That was discovered to be superfluid in about nineteen thirty-two . |
| 16 | Infant mortality remained unremittingly high at about 150/1,000 from 1840 until about 1900 , although this apparent stability may have been in part an artefact of the extension of birth registration to the least healthy groups of the population , and of a shift in the social class composition of births . |
| 17 | Instead of just getting twelve hours light twelve hours dark we get you know it might not get dark until eleven o'clock at night and it gets light at about four o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 19 | The Party Headquarters thought we were going to get about fifty over all other Parties , and they are wrong by about eighty . |
| 20 | The hatred is vivid but instructive , for Tabi is representative of about half of those sportsmen from single-parent families . |
| 21 | One of the tanks has been planted and left to grow virtually untouched for about twenty years . |
| 22 | He had , at the time of the deceased 's death , known the deceased for about three years . |
| 23 | The ovipositor has been visible for about 10 days , and is more prominent in one fish than in the other . |
| 24 | I was only smug for about half a minute . |
| 25 | Residential considerations were paramount for about one-third of the sample . |
| 26 | The injuries to the head , consistent with about 15 blows , would have caused her to lose consciousness which made her helpless to resist the acts which caused her death , he said . |
| 27 | Towns developed at the same time as the great lowland temples , and are identifiable from about 2000 BC . |
| 28 | From the very beginning , there was a reasonably healthy dissension between them , although it did not evolve into anything serious until about 18 months into the band 's career . |
| 29 | ‘ It gets dark at about eight , ’ she says , pulling nervously at her hair . |
| 30 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |