Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] about [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , we were going for about ten minute . |
| 2 | When using the pump this was reduced to about 10 minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |