Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] about three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you know anything about drains , I 've never been down them , but if you kno , if you know anything about them , it goes down about three , four foot , five foot sometimes , and then , there is a , the pipe , the there 's , there 's a ledge there , and then going on down into the , in into the main drains . |
| 2 | So , I mean , say in about three or four years time you you 'd have the same level of cover |
| 3 | Taylor and Urquhart observe that , for the great majority of research materials , use of an item declines rapidly about three years after publication , so that after this period any book has an equally low chance of being used . |
| 4 | The company only turned over about three million pounds last year , and made profits of just over a hundred thousand . |
| 5 | And this came up about three times ! |
| 6 | But it came up about three times ! |
| 7 | ‘ She came here about three months ago and made your acquaintance , did n't she ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then you 'll know Heather came here about three months ago . |
| 9 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 10 | ‘ When he said he had been mugged , they said that sort of thing happened there about three times a day . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd given up about three weeks before but I was ready to beg from him . |
| 12 | This trailer will be ready for pick up about three . |
| 13 | Only walked properly about three months ago . |
| 14 | And he gets in about three thousand six hundred a year on that . |
| 15 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 16 | They get through about three dustbin-fuls every week . |
| 17 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 18 | They talked mostly about Three Oaks Bay , its people , its peculiarities . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 20 | And that silts up and tha cos the you get the silt , well I think it silted up about three feet in about three years , that were n't much and the .. course to come up now . |
| 21 | He pulled up about three yards from me and stuck the boat into full reverse to stop . |
| 22 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 23 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |
| 24 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 25 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 26 | ( We were probably sitting on about three feet of dried dung , crumbly and friable . ) |
| 27 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 28 | Corporal Bromby 's team are on task north of the Antelope Road changing a B81 — they should be finished in about three hours . ’ |
| 29 | I used to get up about three , the fire , and things like this , and I used to get really bored . |
| 30 | The enhanced results which can be obtained using a combined therapeutic regime are well illustrated by a study which we had the opportunity of carrying out about three years ago at a residential health establishment in Crieff . |