Example sentences of "[vb past] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most frightening times in my life occurred about three years ago during the October break . |
| 2 | He would n't let me say something and I tried about three times and in the end I just kept talking , |
| 3 | One bounce ; it hit the flag-stick and dropped about three feet from the hole . |
| 4 | Forgot about three or four things . |
| 5 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 6 | So , what is psychology erm we spent about one week on , whereas we we spent about three weeks on memory . |
| 7 | There were big exhibits of people living in dreadful conditions in tenements in the East End for example , and the legislation in Britain followed about , in America I mean , followed about three years later . |
| 8 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 9 | We had to , of course , make a one million pound reduction following the S S A the final S S A announcement which Heseltine made about three weeks ago , but we were always at the capping limit , and I think |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman asked about three questions and I shall choose which one to answer . |
| 11 | A student at Sheffield university then , he recalls : ‘ When you blew into your handkerchief , you got about three tons of coaldust . |
| 12 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 13 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 14 | I I thought like pictures of I 've got about like , got about three hundred and I 've still got five films too develop . |
| 15 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 16 | He , in turn , leapt about three feet off the armchair and made a lightning bolt for the door , which unfortunately was closed . |
| 17 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |
| 18 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 19 | Those two put together , I think we lost about three hundred thousand pounds as a result of the change in distribution . |
| 20 | I think ahm there 's the N C T would erm at Woodmanston they just started about three weeks ago , three or four weeks ago . |
| 21 | Police called to their bungalow in Basingstoke , Hants , think Mrs Elsie Soper , 73 , died about three days before her husband Edward , 81 . |
| 22 | And er one old lady , that only recently died about three years ago , at about ninety seven , and she was there when I was a child . |
| 23 | Of Dustin , Ross said , ‘ He looked about three feet tall , so dead serious , so humourless , so unkempt . |
| 24 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 25 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 26 | Last time I went about three years ago . |
| 27 | He 's got a really good band now , too , which I saw about three months ago . |
| 28 | According to Samuel , the calculation took about three months to complete . |
| 29 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 30 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |