Example sentences of "[adv] in about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south-facing classical façade was built on in about 1708 , just after the house had been bought by an affluent salter from Bradford on Avon called William Chandler . |
| 2 | Three three farms and there 's only te ten properties altogether in about two hundred yards |
| 3 | ‘ So in about ten months we 'd have him out and around , or else what am I paying you for ? ’ |
| 4 | And so in about three weeks I began to speak the language of Lilliput . |
| 5 | The analysis of a group of such SAP projects will be meaningful only in about ten years after they became fashionable — that is in about 1995 . |
| 6 | The M'Naghten rules are still in force and the ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ plea succeeds only in about ten cases each year in British courts . |
| 7 | They were the earliest type of school text book erm which came in in about fourteen fifty , er to teach your A B C which you just copied and copied and copied until you got it right . |
| 8 | So he said , well he said tell him to come in in about four weeks time he said , we 'll be getting rid of everything . |
| 9 | That was we put that one in in about nineteen eighty six that one . |
| 10 | Cos we moved in in about nineteen I think we moved in in nineteen eighty nineteen eighty , nineteen eighty one we moved in . |
| 11 | If she 's not in in about five minutes then we 'll go outside anyway , alright ? |
| 12 | It was her afternoon off in about twenty minutes . |
| 13 | The drawing shows what the city and port was like in about 1200 AD . |
| 14 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |
| 15 | She would have a new coat for winter once in about three years , and the same for summer , with a suit for ‘ in between weather , ’ ( spring and autumn ) , so there was only one of these major expenses each year . |
| 16 | The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ . |
| 17 | He , he sat here this morning he said all serious he said I 'm cutting out potatoes , bread , biscuits and all sweet things , so I you know , I just said , well if you know if you are love , do you want me to sort of start , you know , obviously not cooking you potatoes and whatever , well what we 'll see in a , probably in about two month 's like , you know |
| 18 | But this alliance was followed by others , with more accessible cities , Leontini on the east coast of Sicily , and Rhegion on the straits between Italy and Sicily , on the Italian side ( ML 63–4 ) , probably in about 443 . |
| 19 | The road through the forest twists and turns like a corkscrew , there is n't more than 100 yards of straight in about 40 miles , and it 's narrow and gravel . |
| 20 | Aides said that a 73-year-old Indian guru , lying on slabs of ice and pronounced dead by doctors more than a month ago , is in a state of deep meditation and will wake up in about six months . |
| 21 | ‘ Have my car sent up in about fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 22 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 23 | Good to see the ‘ pool comin right back at em last night after the scum went 3 up in about 25 minutes . |
| 24 | that 's no big deal , but she 'd found that out in about five minutes ! |
| 25 | At the same time , in-depth studies will be carried out in about 40 major companies , concerning their decisions about selection and recruitment for jobs . |
| 26 | I 'll be back in about 10 days . |
| 27 | Also , it will be very interesting to examine the Davis Cup record of those ‘ flavour of the month ’ players such as Courier , Sampras etc in about 10 years time . |
| 28 | Murdock worked at Soho for a short time and then in about 1779 he was sent to Cornwall as the firm 's chief mechanic and agent in all technical matters . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd been playing ‘ normally ’ for about 10 years , then in about 1975 I started to try slide . |