Example sentences of "about twelve [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 2 | I dress in haste and at ten I sit down to compose until about twelve or half past twelve . |
| 3 | Round about twelve or thirteen , I suppose they kind of |
| 4 | She supposed her to be about twelve or thirteen . |
| 5 | Standing in the foyer of his mansion block later that evening , waiting for the lift to descend , Matthew was joined by a small blonde girl of about twelve or fourteen . |
| 6 | Which means you 've got to make it for about twelve or fourteen . |
| 7 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 8 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , Leonora , but you look about twelve or so in this light . ’ |
| 10 | I mean the only th there was only about twelve or fourteen that she could cater for fo for a meal , you know , she had her dining room |
| 11 | So I think I ought n't to spend more than about twelve or thirteen pounds on him . |
| 12 | He says , if wo if I can get , he 's go I mean he 's got to get some sleep so he says , well I 'll get up about twelve or one and says , and then I 'll go down there . |
| 13 | How can you , could you do that if you 've got I mean he 's about twelve or thirteen comes home from school |
| 14 | By the time he 's about twelve or something I 'll go when 's your birthday mate ? |
| 15 | There was about twelve or thirteen of us there . |
| 16 | Ministerial reassurances that the selective scheme would only encompass between about twelve and twenty authorities , and that the general scheme was a reserve power which ministers hoped never to use , served — although not written into the Bill — further to limit politically the scope of the measure . |
| 17 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 18 | And I think our wages were about twelve and six a week and then it went to fifteen shillings a week . |
| 19 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 20 | The theorist is quite in line really with the reflector the average there is about twelve and a half . |
| 21 | Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions . |
| 22 | when I was about twelve and I remember bashing into a nanny with a pram . |