Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings were rebuilt from about 1500 in stone and brick and survived until 1837 , when the architect K. Kremer was commissioned to enlarge and adapt the university , called the Cracow Academy . |
| 2 | At some point during the late 1950s or early 1960s he deciphered — thanks to the help of a passing visitor from the planet Venus — some hieroglyphs from the Amazon Basin which were dated to about 10,000 years ago . |
| 3 | Nuclear extracts from BHK-21 or HeLa cells were made from about 5 10 7 cells as described by Dignam et al. , ( 17 ) . |
| 4 | Between 1712 and 1716 the lots were sold to about twenty different persons : the same rents remained in force for the next century . |
| 5 | While we were waiting at about 10.30 p.m. to go on night shift , we were subjected to a certain amount of what would now be called ‘ sexual harassment ’ , which we learned to parry quite neatly ; but the arrangement did seem a little thoughtless on the part of the B.P. Transport Department . |
| 6 | You know , we were going for about ten minute . |
| 7 | The cream boat or cream jug were introduced from about 1740 and are similar to the sauce-boat , though smaller . |
| 8 | We were talking till about three and then there was three of us who stayed awake longer , Then som the alarm went off at six thirty cos someone had a newspaper round . |
| 9 | This new kind of organisation was formed from about 1820 onwards mainly in towns with a substantial number of deaf and dumb people . |
| 10 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 11 | Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC . |
| 12 | A start was delayed until about eight o'clock . |
| 13 | It remained a circular route but the distance was shortened to about thirty-two miles ( fifty kilometres ) , virtually the same course as the present one . |
| 14 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 15 | I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the |
| 16 | This was done in about 1650 by cutting straight canals to bypass some of the river meanders and so allow the flood waters of the rivers to reach the sea more easily . |
| 17 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 18 | It was used until about 1500 , when it was superseded by Modern English , which was based on the dialect of the East Midlands used by Chaucer . |
| 19 | and if the house was , and if the house is , if say for argument sake that the house after you 've sold it , you 've only your , er fourteen or sixteen thousand pounds to pay then and you 've paid that off , right , and the house was sold for about forty thousand |
| 20 | John Cranko was born at about six in the morning of 15 August 1927 , a Monday . |
| 21 | When using the pump this was reduced to about 10 minutes . |
| 22 | By 1992 the collection was reduced to about 20 vehicles , and further rationalization was called for to dispose of those which were non-revenue earning . |
| 23 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 24 | This trend was interrupted at about 11,000 -10,300 B.P. by a widespread climatic deterioration that resulted in the redevelopment or expansion of corrie glaciers and small ice-caps in the Scottish Highlands , the so-called Loch Lomond stadial . |
| 25 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 26 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 27 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 28 | A total output of about 25,000 army and air force decrypts per month from Hut 6 was increased to about 48,000 each month between the autumn of 1943 and the end of the war . |
| 29 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 30 | Told that it was a fox 's cairn , he insisted on climbing up by himself to have a look at it , and was gone for about twenty minutes . |