Example sentences of "[noun pl] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thousands have been sold through hairdressers for about seven pounds . |
| 2 | Cook the vegetables for about 5 minutes , then add the garlic , ginger and stock . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | General Noriega went on television to say he had been aware of the rebels ' plans for about three weeks . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Money raised by runners for Birthright in 1990 will fund one of its research projects for about 12 months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 'd been feeding ‘ our ’ ducks for about three months when one day , much to my disappointment , they mysteriously disappeared . |
| 10 | Well I have n't seen her feeding the ducks for about three or four months . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The truck raced along bad roads for about five miles , crashing over pot-holes and making heavy weather of the gear change . |
| 13 | Grill the sardines for about 5 minutes on each side , turning carefully once . |
| 14 | In dogs and cats , they burrow into the gut and swell into horrible big worms and lodge in the small intestine ; but in humans they just go on spreading these spiral patterns for about 18 months and then die . ’ |
| 15 | Residential care is provided by local authorities for about 105,000 old people in England and Wales . |
| 16 | United Technologies has sponsored the arts for about twelve years . |
| 17 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 18 | She has been sculpting flowers , birds and animals for about 12 years . |
| 19 | But Ian Cartwright , Doncaster director and chairman of the ADSS disabilities committee , said : ‘ I do n't see how it could be included in the transfers because most residents will be away from their homes for about two to three weeks . |
| 20 | Because we had finished with the hens then you see , and they used to sell the hens for about two shillings or something like that you know . |
| 21 | His intention was to remain on his knees for about ten or fifteen seconds , and then to rise , saying smilingly , ‘ Well , then … ’ or words to that effect . |
| 22 | Finish the sequence by ‘ holding ’ — hold the feet for about 30 seconds , then the knees , the hands and finally the head and abdomen : place one hand on your partner 's forehead , the other lightly on the abdomen . |
| 23 | Digital Instruments still relies on universities and research institutes for about half of its sales . |
| 24 | And that was the Logagun models For about ten years feature models were quite popular in perception . |
| 25 | Nowadays , Britain relies on imports for about half its consumption of tin . |
| 26 | He pressed the button at intervals for about five minutes , but there was no reaction . |
| 27 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 28 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 29 | Michael O'Reilly , parish priest of the hosting church , Our Lady of Good Counsel , added , ‘ I have been doing directed retreats for about fifteen years — it was good to have one in the parish which could be shared with our Christian friends from the other churches in Seacroft . |
| 30 | In this cook the livers for about 5 minutes , turning them over constantly . |