Example sentences of "but about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 2 | But about a quarter of that , comprising the older Magnox stations , was due to retire during the 1990s . |
| 3 | But about a year ago she had begun to remember incidents which she must hitherto have blocked from her mind . |
| 4 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 5 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 6 | Most are thought to be harmless , but about a dozen appear to be toxic . |
| 7 | But about a third again admitted to researchers they never use the bins at all . |
| 8 | The majority are employed , but about a fifth have suffered a period of unemployment in the past . |
| 9 | But about a third of the top agencies in our sector all went bust in |