Example sentences of "[adv] about [num] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about 1923 the eldest Marsh girl joined the chorus of one of the variety shows playing at the Palace Theatre and went on tour . |
| 2 | In about 1850 the neo-Gothic gate was built . |
| 3 | After being sold to a Leeds scrapyard in about 1920 the crane became derelict until 1988 when it was salvaged and restored by Dorothea Restoration Engineers . |
| 4 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 5 | When turbulence develops at Reynolds numbers above about 104 the region of boundary layer instability is probably an important feature of the transition process . |
| 6 | But they were there about seven the other week . |