Example sentences of "[be] build [adv prt] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theatre was built in about 80 B.C. and accommodated 1200 . |
| 2 | Thaxted church was built in about 1340 and the finishing touches were made in the 1550s ; with its magnificent structure it could easily have been the cathedral of north-west Essex if one had ever been needed . |
| 3 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 4 | The present palazzo was built in about 1170 on the site of an earlier episcopal seat destroyed by Barbarossa . |
| 5 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |