Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , we were going for about ten minute . |
| 2 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | The line was closed for about half an hour while firemen dealt with the blaze . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The incident happened on the Osmotherley to Thimbleby road which was blocked for about half an hour . |