Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |
| 2 | Almost total clearance occurred at about 3500 B.P. The Standing Stones of Callanish are thought to date from 3750 — 3500 B.P. |
| 3 | The accident occurred at about 3.30 p.m . |
| 4 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 5 | Thus , while a two child family would have begun paying income tax at about average earnings in the mid-1950s , its liability to income tax began at about half average earnings by the mid-1970s . |
| 6 | The 25 November fire in the Body Shop started at about 2.40 am , and the whole of the shop and its contents , including the workmen 's benches and tools , were entirely destroyed , only portions of the walls , columns and ironwork remaining . |
| 7 | Unless I was awakened by the departure of a bed-fellow who had to work or study , poor girl , my day began at about nine or thereabouts , with a leisurely shower and a small black coffee . |
| 8 | The collision occurred at about 9.15 this morning , when there was torrential rain across much of the Cotswolds . |
| 9 | Even so , the general average remained at about 60 hours per week . |
| 10 | The top of the haze layer came at about 7,000 ‘ ft ‘ . |
| 11 | The incident happened at about nine-thirty this morning , but details were n't released by the Civil Aviation Authority until late this afternoon . |
| 12 | The attack happened at about 8.30 a.m. yesterday morning . |
| 13 | Mosaics cover the half-domes of the niches but only the extreme left doorway — the Porta di Sant Allipio — has its original mosaic of the thirteenth century ; this illustrates the transportation of S. Mark 's body to the new church and shows how the church looked at about 1210 , based upon Justinian 's Church of the Holy Apostles ( PLATE 34 ) . |
| 14 | The next day , after sporadic incidents , violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m . |
| 15 | The alarm came at about three in the morning , a barn-owl 's screech out of the night from Meurig on top of the ridge to Iorwerth waking and on guard at the camp . |
| 16 | School started at about 8.30 till about 3.30 and I could n't miss any lessons . |