Example sentences of "about [num] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 32 | I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin . |
| 33 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 34 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 35 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 36 | The hon. Gentleman asked about three questions and I shall choose which one to answer . |
| 37 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 38 | It 'll be about three pounds or something . |
| 39 | Well I only , th I mean the woman made me feel dead small because I said to her you know , she was asking everybody why they 'd come and I said , well I 've only come to give Chris moral support , which was the truth because until about three hours before we went , I did n't even know it was there |
| 40 | We were left in the waiting room for about three hours before anyone started dealing with us . |
| 41 | I do n't like , just , I could n't be like Deirdre and , put me overall on and in go in without collecting me thoughts getting myself together Deirdre never arrives till about three minutes before she gets in the door , she 's putting her overall on saying come on ladies , its time were , but she 's putting her overall and on , and they all sit there looking at her and so |
| 42 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
| 43 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 44 | About three weeks after I moved in , she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening . |
| 45 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 46 | ‘ Samantha and Leanne were on heart monitors for about three days after it happened . |
| 47 | About three days after she had er the abortion started to work and she lost the baby . |
| 48 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 49 | After treatment I removed the copper and treated with Myxazin , but I still lost the fish about three months after it first stopped feeding . |
| 50 | It happened with us , when we borrowed money to pay for this car , finished it off now , the bank , oh the letters they send you , about three months before you 're about to finish paying , I am an esteemed and valued customer you know and all that crap |
| 51 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 52 | Like that was saying if you wanted to , about three months cos I mean kept putting |
| 53 | Well , I think , once he gets established , and once he starts getting work in , I think meself , that work will start , wo n't say rolling in , but I think the work 'll start coming in after about three months and I can get established . |
| 54 | It was my father who started me off , about three years after we moved into the village dad joined the Debenham Players the local amateur dramatics society . |
| 55 | And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours . |
| 56 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 57 | about three years and it has bled a couple of times . |
| 58 | so she just had the rice and an egg with it and Gemma had about three pasties and I had stuffed tomatoes with rice and erm , what did I do with , I done rata , ratatouille and |
| 59 | Adept has produced about 3,000 robots since it was founded in 1983 . |
| 60 | While city leaders in Leipzig held talks with reformists , reports indicated that police in Halle had made a baton attack on about 3,000 people as they were leaving a church to march in silence round the town . |