Example sentences of "[noun] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About two hours preparation for about ten minutes eating . |
| 2 | Many thousands have been sold through hairdressers for about seven pounds . |
| 3 | you ca n't wash your hair for about two months or something like that . |
| 4 | Cook the vegetables for about 5 minutes , then add the garlic , ginger and stock . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , Jim putted brilliantly in all four rounds , finished equal seventh , genially accepted a cheque for about six thousand pounds and then gave me his own cheque for four hundred . |
| 6 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |
| 7 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 8 | So , the first little bit of exercise we 're gon na do is , I 'm gon na ask you to , just work in pairs for about five minutes . |
| 9 | General Noriega went on television to say he had been aware of the rebels ' plans for about three weeks . |
| 10 | I 've , I 've never seen it , well I 've , I 've , I 've only had contact , I 've had these , this last set of contacts for about two years now , that 's why I want to get some new ones and erm |
| 11 | I mean you could get erm a bedroom suite for about twenty pounds then . |
| 12 | Money raised by runners for Birthright in 1990 will fund one of its research projects for about 12 months . |
| 13 | Some 14 miles down this road , a road to the left climbs amidst woods for about two miles , past the village of Tonni , to Borgo Pretale . |
| 14 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 15 | Closed windows and doors help to contain smoke and flames for about 20 minutes , and as inhaled smoke can immobilise people who are attempting to escape , these vital minutes may permit a more orderly evacuation from other parts of the building , and simultaneously allow time for professional help to arrive . |
| 16 | We 'd been feeding ‘ our ’ ducks for about three months when one day , much to my disappointment , they mysteriously disappeared . |
| 17 | Well I have n't seen her feeding the ducks for about three or four months . |
| 18 | It should be noted that the DTI provides support for about 7000 British participants attending over 300 overseas trade fairs . |
| 19 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |
| 20 | Gaze at the black bar between the left-hand pair of slanting gratings for about thirty seconds , then transfer your gaze to the dot between the central pair of gratings ; they will appear to slant in the opposite directions . |
| 21 | The truck raced along bad roads for about five miles , crashing over pot-holes and making heavy weather of the gear change . |
| 22 | Grill the sardines for about 5 minutes on each side , turning carefully once . |
| 23 | The early training , founded on earlier arrangements of pre-existing sonata movements by other composers , was rewarded — the D major Concerto , K.175 remaining a favourite for about ten years . |
| 24 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 25 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 26 | Thursday afternoon for about three . . |
| 27 | In very dry weather , and light soil , some of them will want watering , not just a watering-canful , but a prolonged sprinkling with a spray attachment from a hose for about half an hour . |
| 28 | Increase oven heat to crisp the pork and cook the stuffing for about twenty minutes . |
| 29 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 30 | Then they said we do accept some responsibility for about four percent of problems . |