Example sentences of "[det] [prep] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would do that for about four days , and then go off on something else . |
| 2 | I had thought that for about five days . |
| 3 | ‘ They lived like that for about two years . |
| 4 | Do you know it twenty to six we played that for about two hours was it ? |
| 5 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 6 | scheme or something like that for about half the price . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 8 | I was in that for about three years . |
| 9 | er and I 'll just run through this for about five minutes and then any questions and we 'll go . |
| 10 | You 're to go to Saffron Walden and then you 're supposed to make friends and all this sort of , and he went through all this for about five minutes and this lad |
| 11 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I felt like this for about four months now . |
| 14 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 15 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 16 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 17 | Turn down the heat so that the water simmers gently , and poach spoonfuls of meringue in this for about 60 seconds each side . |
| 18 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 19 | Go along this for about 50 yards , then turn off right and drop down towards the wall and then towards a big double metal gate ahead . |
| 20 | At the other end I cant remember any really clear chances ( Gav ? ) , aside from a good volley from Newsome which swerved viciously and had flowers diving to hold onto ( this from about 25 yards out ) . |
| 21 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 22 | Four detours , each of about 5 miles are suggested . |
| 23 | There is one flat , broad , apical papillae flanked by two rows of each of about 5 papillae flanking on each side , the row situated on the surface of the oral plates are considered to be supplementary . |
| 24 | This time Mass Ob recruited four Sharescale panels , each of about 200 households . |
| 25 | Comprising two lakes , each of about three acres and generally from 12 to 18 feet deep , the fishery is set attractively on the edge of the Breckland forests and adjacent to the River Lark . |
| 26 | A test would consist of about 20 ‘ lines ’ , each of about 20 linked circles . |
| 27 | This is an index that assesses conditions for investment in each of about 50 countries . |
| 28 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 29 | Although official figures are not available , Leslie Mapp of the NCET believes that of about 2,000 interactive video workstations in British schools , less than 30 per cent are actually in current use . |
| 30 | We 've been doing these for about six . |