Example sentences of "about [num] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zenon Papyri have shown how in about 259 B.C. the agents of the finance minister Apollonius operated in the interests of their master : one of his estates was at Bet Anat in Galilee ( Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1 , 1–5 ) . |
| 2 | More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety . |
| 3 | About 189 B.C. the Roman general Publius became mad in the panhellenic sanctuary of Naupactus and began to utter oracles in good Greek about the end of Roman rule : a king would come from Asia to take revenge for what the Romans had done to the Greeks . |
| 4 | At about 10 am the owner of the jetty arrives . |
| 5 | Rome emerged as the greatest power in Italy when the Latins , for fear of the Celts , had to give up their independence about 350 B.C. The new kingdom of Macedonia under the firm hand of Antigonus Gonatas was the direct outcome of the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Greece . |
| 6 | ‘ About three o'clock the Gurkhas came alongside us and we were told an attack on the Aubers Ridge was to be launched . |
| 7 | From about ten o'clock the bars and the street start to fill up . |
| 8 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 9 | About 10.30 a.m. the army began to march past . |
| 10 | The ladies in the parade were transferred to closed carriages and about 3 o'clock the procession moved off . |
| 11 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 12 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 13 | And come back about nine o'clock the Saturday night . |
| 14 | From about 1000 A.D. the true Romanesque style of architecture shows itself and , since it emerged in many different countries of Europe which were not in all these years under the influence and direction of one empire , as previously , it developed in different ways . |
| 15 | About 200 B.C. the biographer Hermippus accepted without difficulty the notion that Pythagoras had been a pupil of Jews and Thracians . |
| 16 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 17 | At Sokolnitz the first shots were fired about seven o'clock the bombardment continuing for almost an hour . |
| 18 | About 2.30 a.m. the shelling increased and lasted until 3.30 a.m . |
| 19 | About 1200 BC the late Bronze Age civilization of Mycenae , which had dominated the Aegean world since the destruction of Knossos some 300 years before , itself collapsed under the invasion of the Dorian Greeks from the north . |