Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from about [adj] " 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 | Nuclear extracts from BHK-21 or HeLa cells were made from about 5 10 7 cells as described by Dignam et al. , ( 17 ) . |
| 3 | The cream boat or cream jug were introduced from about 1740 and are similar to the sauce-boat , though smaller . |
| 4 | This new kind of organisation was formed from about 1820 onwards mainly in towns with a substantial number of deaf and dumb people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the years 1880–1913 the number of land purchasing agencies and co-operatives associated with the Land Purchase Bank was to rise from about 120 to nearly 300 . |