Example sentences of "[prep] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 2 | These are tended by both parents and hatch after about three days at a temperature of 80–82°s ; F. |
| 3 | After about three weeks , the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest . |
| 4 | After about three hours , we got through and we asked her what had happened and she said ‘ everything is fine … the tanks are just across the road ’ , and my mum did n't know what to say because we were all so upset . |
| 5 | I 'll have to see how it goes and after about three years , I 'll see if I feel like doing any more . |
| 6 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 7 | Erm a and f at first we had one or two people coming in , but then it , it , it dr it dropped off very quickly , and after about three months , I think , we decided we were n't getting enough take-up , w that we would not have the sessions in the flats any more , but that we would encourage people to come to the Law Centre if they had any problems . |
| 8 | This is a genuine photograph showing how much dirt can accumulate after about three years . |
| 9 | The station was recaptured after about three hours by soldiers loyal to the government , after firing in which two soldiers were killed . |
| 10 | I was accepted after about three month or four month you know , I was accepted as one of the |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | training for them , then say after about three or four year if they wan na get married , they got children and they got some good experience . |
| 13 | It is usual to hire a new vehicle on a fully maintained basis for a period of about three years . |
| 14 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 15 | This gun 's got a range of about three hundred metres and your mother 's a very good shot . |
| 16 | From the age of about three , at bedtime story-time , Shanti would often ask , ‘ Tell me about when you fetched me from London . ’ |
| 17 | In the centre of the Court the door to a large flat was answered by a pretty fairhaired little girl of about three years old . |
| 18 | In the river valleys and levels densities of just over four pairs per square kilometre have been noted in the Arun valley , and of about three pairs per square kilometre in Pevensey Levels . |
| 19 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 20 | I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag . |
| 21 | Since the human population increased by a similar rate , according to the statistics there was a constant proportion of about three persons for each head of cattle . |
| 22 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 23 | During its growth phase ( called anagen ) hair grows for between three and six years , Then there is a short resting period ( telogen ) of about three months , when the hair is shed . |
| 24 | It was n't a baby either , it was a child of about three , and what 's more it was a boy with a shock of fair hair . |
| 25 | The Arrowana to be introduced will be young specimen of about three or four inches ( 7–10 cm ) , which are readily available now . |
| 26 | Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door … and the precious hope in Kerry 's heart died . |
| 27 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 28 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |
| 29 | His planned route would take him from Oban via Falmouth to the Canary Islands before striking out for either Bermuda or Newport , Rhode Island — a total voyage of about three months . |
| 30 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |