Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , post-industrial growth has brought about a second wave of ‘ tertiarization ’ of our cities , in which massive extension of office building has marked the 1980s , often in postmodern architecture . |
| 2 | We can reveal he plans to invest about a hundred and fifteen million of his own money without going to the bank , much of it 's for planes , staff and facilities , but we discovered he 's just used forty five million to buy out Saboo Saison the airline 's Japanese shareholder . |
| 3 | In an NHS clinic this may be only ten to fifteen minutes , but the average practitioner seeing a patient privately likes to give about an hour to the first interview , so that a good idea of as many facets of the patient as possible can be ascertained . |
| 4 | It is , it is , it 's re-opened about a week ago , having been shut for re-doing . |
| 5 | ‘ So I buy an old dump that 's got about a hundred and fifty thousand miles on the clock . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's got about a hundred — all kept in marvellous conditions . |
| 7 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 8 | And you 're not supposed to have more than thirty even though Mike 's got about a hundred and three . |