Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | About two hours preparation for about ten minutes eating . |
| 2 | Many thousands have been sold through hairdressers for about seven pounds . |
| 3 | Brimglade do a garment rail for about £18 ( plus £9 carriage if ordered direct ) . |
| 4 | you ca n't wash your hair for about two months or something like that . |
| 5 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 6 | Such is the case for about 50% of our patients . |
| 7 | Cook the vegetables for about 5 minutes , then add the garlic , ginger and stock . |
| 8 | Most of the highland-type rocks , even those found on the maria , have ages between about 3800 Ma and 4300 Ma , which suggests that a lunar-wide heating took place a little over 4300 Ma ago resetting the radiometric ‘ clocks ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 10 | The climax of the weekend will be a massed ride from the hostel to Trevor basin where a cheque for about £500 collected during the rally will be presented to the Vale of Llangollen Canal Boat Trust . |
| 11 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |
| 12 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 13 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 14 | So , the first little bit of exercise we 're gon na do is , I 'm gon na ask you to , just work in pairs for about five minutes . |
| 15 | General Noriega went on television to say he had been aware of the rebels ' plans for about three weeks . |
| 16 | I 've , I 've never seen it , well I 've , I 've , I 've only had contact , I 've had these , this last set of contacts for about two years now , that 's why I want to get some new ones and erm |
| 17 | I mean you could get erm a bedroom suite for about twenty pounds then . |
| 18 | Money raised by runners for Birthright in 1990 will fund one of its research projects for about 12 months . |
| 19 | The change in the results is because the company and its auditors discovered that , ‘ based on information that has recently come to their attention , ’ payment for about $5.3m in equipment orders from a foreign government agency , recorded in the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , will not be forthcoming on the schedule expected . |
| 20 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 21 | The note records also that the deceased told Mr. Burgess he had investments worth about £17,000 . |
| 22 | Some 14 miles down this road , a road to the left climbs amidst woods for about two miles , past the village of Tonni , to Borgo Pretale . |
| 23 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 24 | Closed windows and doors help to contain smoke and flames for about 20 minutes , and as inhaled smoke can immobilise people who are attempting to escape , these vital minutes may permit a more orderly evacuation from other parts of the building , and simultaneously allow time for professional help to arrive . |
| 25 | We 'd been feeding ‘ our ’ ducks for about three months when one day , much to my disappointment , they mysteriously disappeared . |
| 26 | Well I have n't seen her feeding the ducks for about three or four months . |
| 27 | The couple are suing British Nuclear Fuels for about £150,000 compensation . |
| 28 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 29 | It should be noted that the DTI provides support for about 7000 British participants attending over 300 overseas trade fairs . |
| 30 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |