Example sentences of "[noun prp] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 2 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 3 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 4 | Because the shuttle will be out of contact with a TDRS for about half its 90-minute orbit of the Earth , scientists on board will be cut off from those on the ground who designed the experiments . |
| 5 | ‘ I had known Bob Payton for about ten years , since he opened the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory . |
| 6 | That was the last time I saw David for about four years . ’ |
| 7 | At the time there was a postal strike and I did n't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks . |
| 8 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 9 | Harper said : ‘ I went out with Rebecca for about three months , then I went out with Emma . |
| 10 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 11 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 12 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 13 | Tass said Ukraine , which depends on Russia for about 70 per cent of its gas needs , owed 165 billion roubles ( $286 million ) for gas supplied up to February 19 . |
| 14 | At the same meeting at which the Vial memorandum was read , on 6 September 1791 , a letter to the secretary from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy ( who were present ) was produced : ‘ Sir , In consequence of your Advertisement we beg leave to inform you , that we have contracted with Lord Camden for about 100 acres of building land , near [ Old ] St Pancras Church , abutting on the Turnpike Road leading to Kentish Town , which is intended to be called Camden Town conceiving the situation eligible for your truly valuable Institution we request you will lay this our proposal before the Society — We hold this Land under his Lordship for 99 years from Michaelmas last , the three first subject to no Ground Rent , our proposal is , that Lord Camden does and he will under our direction grant the Society a lease for 99 years from that time , the three first subject to no rent but for the remainder of the term an Annual Rent of thirty pounds per acre , should this proposal meet with approbation , the Society have only to direct their Surveyor to make out any quantity of land and in what position they conceive will best answer their purpose ’ . |
| 15 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 16 | Joyce Strand , 50 , of Prince Regent Street , Leith , said she had lived with Mr Buckley for about five years before his death . |
| 17 | Mum-of-one Nicky , a divorced 34-year-old commercial director , has known Robert for about 16 years . |
| 18 | Christina had n't seen Martin for about six months , since Stephen had made it plain how much he objected even to a friendship between them . |
| 19 | I 've heard about you not talking to Olivia for about two weeks . |
| 20 | She 'd known John Delaney for about six months , but the last few hours had been the catalyst . |
| 21 | As I 've done Littlewoods for about eighteen years . |
| 22 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 23 | Westlake Village , California-based Delphi Information Systems Inc says it plans to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Continental Systems Inc of East Lansing , Michigan for about 446,000 shares of Delphi common stock , worth $3m . |
| 24 | ‘ I took a bunch of lessons from Joe for about five years off and on . |
| 25 | Acquisitions Geeco and Concept Housewares are being integrated , and Betterware is selling the SABCo factory in East Kilbride for about two-and-a-half times purchase price . |
| 26 | As regards the physical limitations in food supplies , there seems to be general scientific agreement that this does not constitute the real constraint … the vague counter argument that more intensive cultivation will ruin the soil is hardly convincing in view of the fact that soil has been farmed with increasing intensity in Western Europe for about 2000 years and there is still no sign that it is exhausted . |
| 27 | After this the Romans remained in Britain for about 400 years . |
| 28 | Murdock stayed in Cornwall for about 19 years and got on much better with the miners than Watt had done . |
| 29 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 30 | He remained a trainee assistant to Stahl for about three years , and then served as Boyle 's assistant for ten years , moving to London with him in 1668 . |