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Example sentences of "it [verb] about a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It supplies about a hundred pubs , and three large hotels in Skegness .
2	It costs about a £1,000 a month to run the centre .
3	I mean it costs about a hundred and twenty three pounds a day
4	Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal .
5	It takes about a minute to print a full A4 page .
6	Wh w when testing a new drug , you 're trading off th th the the level of testing you can do , it takes about a hundred millions pounds to produce a new drug , it takes about ten years from test tube to getting a licence .
7	It takes about an hour to travel the length of the lake in complete silence .
8	Well Marg I mean I phoned Margaret , she said it takes about an hour .
9	A pack of chili sauce , somebody go and get to get it on , it takes about an hour .
10	It takes about an hour to take it off .
11	Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story .
12	Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby .
13	You mean , during the day or well it took about an hour say .
14	No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run .