Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] about [art] " in BNC.

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1 On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared .
2 If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine .
3 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 .
4 Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years .
5 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its Unix fax unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year .
6 Once farrowed , sows stay with their litter for several days , then begin to leave the nest after about a week as the piglets grow larger and more troublesome .
7 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 .
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