Example sentences of "[prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about 100,000 years or so , the needle of the compass would abruptly become unstable and then swing round to face in the opposite direction , so that what was once compass north would become compass south , and vice versa . |
| 2 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 3 | Adult Angels are rarely sold , and expensive , but youngsters reach breeding age after about six to eight months . |
| 4 | After about six months Stateside and more operations , I was given a medical discharge with 100% disability ’ . |
| 5 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 6 | And erm after about six six or eight months , we were given a place off Walk . |
| 7 | But once a cream or lotion has been opened and there 's air in the container , it 'll start to lose it 's effect after about six months . |
| 8 | I mean I know he 's going to be out sometime this afternoon , so I think any time after about six o'clock |
| 9 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 10 | But from the Han time onwards , that is after about 200 BC , the inflow type predominated . |
| 11 | It aims to complement work on the south by this researcher , and so to outline aspects of the growing difference after about 1770 between the high-wage industrial north and the poorly-paid ‘ de-industrialising ’ south . |
| 12 | It is clear , then , that the independent rise of country banking had , after about 1770 , a major impact on the structure of London banking , bringing a new and risky business which needed greater commercial knowledge and expertise . |
| 13 | They looked after about fifteen children from dawn to dusk and it was in their belief to take in and embrace all children in the love and light of Zephandra Butolphi . |
| 14 | Oldham got their first corner after about 70 minutes . |
| 15 | The young cuckoo hatches after about 11 days . |
| 16 | Pearce , who was related to Vanbrugh by marriage , acquired a substantial number of his drawings for buildings designed after about 1718 . |
| 17 | That 's what John said last night , we er , all they , all went to bingo five of us went and it boomeranged well if you 're going I 'll come , if I 'm going you 're going I 'm going and the next thing poor old John had to go out and work look after about eleven kids |
| 18 | After about 14 days , the ovaries stop producing Progesterone . |
| 19 | After about nine o'clock , she was free . |
| 20 | After about nine months , the baby starts to clamber out of the pouch and hop about at its mother 's side , though still returning when danger threatens or when it wants a drink of milk . |
| 21 | The incorporation of French-inspired architectural designs and motifs into English wall-paintings , stained glass and illuminated books was evident after about 1250 . |
| 22 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 23 | The most usual mode of transmission of type I herpes is kissing , and following exposure a susceptible individual will develop a crop of blisters ( vesicles ) on the lips after about four days . |
| 24 | After about four to six weeks , when the temperature has dropped to about 4l°C , the heap should be turned , when a further surge of bacterial activity and a second heating will take place , causing further breakdown of the vegetable matter . |
| 25 | After about four weeks of generous feeding , the fry change from fish shaped to Angelfish shaped . |
| 26 | After about four hours , I heard the familiar squeaks a bit further downstream , and in a while , they appeared , travelling through long grass , the female carrying one kit while another three followed closely . |
| 27 | Many children are taken from school after about five years because of economic or family problems . |
| 28 | Then , after about five weeks , in desperation , I sat her on the toilet , and from then on she was clean . |
| 29 | Thijs et al have postulated that pregnancy exerts an effect that disappears after about five years . |
| 30 | But as I said , that finished after about five or six year . |