Example sentences of "after about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ A ’ or No. 1 solution is then applied liberally and after about 10 minutes the second solution is applied . |
| 2 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 3 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 4 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 5 | After about an hour the shelling stopped and was followed by sporadic mortar and machine gun fire , the latter cutting up the ground along the front of the orchard facing the enemy positions . |
| 6 | The evening came to an end after about three hours ' dancing , the final speeches being made by the local dignitaries , this being followed by a round of applause for the French people , led by a British Officer . |
| 7 | After about two weeks , long cracks had developed in the egg , lines of longitude . |
| 8 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 9 | However , feeding is critical and soldiers who are unfed ca n't fight , indeed after about forty-eight hours they fall over ! |
| 10 | Slated urban roofs are likely to have reached this state after about eighty years . |
| 11 | Batleys , the Huddersfield-based cash and carry wholesaler , whose controlling family shareholders are considering whether to buy out minority holders after about 17 years on the stock market , has reported a good interim profit . |
| 12 | The umpires tried to restart the game after about 35 minutes but the Indian team again left the ground when Ravi Shastri complained the crowd was hurling stones . |
| 13 | After about five minutes I heard a voice behind me say : ‘ Hi , there ! |
| 14 | Rather , they would prefer to struggle on , in charge of a minority government , in the hope that the economy will recover and they can reap the benefits at a second election after about a year — as Labour did in 1974 . |
| 15 | ‘ After about 45 seconds it stopped and I managed to get out . |
| 16 | The most popular candidate in Teheran , after about nine per cent of the city 's vote had been counted , was Hojatoleslam Akbar Husseini , a cleric and the presenter of a popular weekly television programme offering Islamic advice to resolve family problems . |
| 17 | However , development was enhanced after about 4500 B.P. There is also evidence for increased storms and winds at this time elsewhere in the Outer ( Simpson , 1966 ) and Inner ( Birks , 1987 ) Hebrides and from Orkney ( e.g. Keatinge and Dickson , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | After about ten minutes he stopped her . |
| 19 | A few teenagers refused to leave with the others , but after about ten minutes they joined the crowd in Guildhall Square where the recently revived DUAC was holding a teach-in . |
| 20 | After about 1820 Burn rarely sacrificed comfort or convenience to grandiose spaces or symmetry . |
| 21 | Eventually , after about 1,000 generations , there were no further changes in proportions , no further changes in climate . |
| 22 | The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia . |
| 23 | After about eight weeks he was discharged home , although he was still confined to a wheelchair . |
| 24 | After about a year , however , for some reason he sold the house again . |
| 25 | After about four or five months on the anti-cellulite programme you will see a dramatic improvement in your figure . |
| 26 | After about an hour Birkett began to be very busy about the room collecting a saucepan and a baking dish made of hammered-out tins and chipping little bits of wood for a fire . |
| 27 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |
| 28 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
| 29 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 30 | After about an hour and a half the meeting broke up . |