Example sentences of "[vb pp] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 2 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 3 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 4 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 5 | Produced in the Auvergne and usually ripened for about two months , Gaperon is expensive . |
| 6 | The camel drops ; the guy takes off the sheet and I 'm blinded for about two minutes . |
| 7 | The Colchester players left the field while police and club stewards restored order , with play being delayed for about five minutes . |
| 8 | After twenty-eight days they would be taken out , washed and packed in hogsheads , and pressed for about ten days . |
| 9 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 10 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |
| 11 | The board 's scientists estimate that radon in Wales can be blamed for about 110 deaths a year , or 6pc of the 2,000 lung cancer deaths , mostly due to smoking cigarettes , and about 85 ( 1pc ) of the 8,500 deaths annually from malignancies . |
| 12 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 13 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 14 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 15 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 16 | The house is abandoned when hunting is unproductive , the local fields are exhausted or the head of the village dies , so that in general one site is used for about six years . |
| 17 | When fully charged , it can be used for about 10 minutes on ‘ max ’ . |
| 18 | Cecilia saw the bear and thought for about five seconds that it was real . |
| 19 | ‘ I have two American Standard Strats that I 've had for about four years , one with Lace Sensors , the other with DiMarzios . |
| 20 | We 've got a bottle of apricot wine what we 've had for about twelve years . |
| 21 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 22 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 23 | ‘ Low mortgage rates — a £30,000 flat can be bought for about 30 per cent less than it can be rented — has undoubtedly triggered off a renewal in confidence . ’ |
| 24 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 25 | The line was closed for about half an hour while firemen dealt with the blaze . |
| 26 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 27 | and if the house was , and if the house is , if say for argument sake that the house after you 've sold it , you 've only your , er fourteen or sixteen thousand pounds to pay then and you 've paid that off , right , and the house was sold for about forty thousand |
| 28 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 29 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 30 | Jim Ogg , research and development officer with the Royal London Hospital care of the elderly department and Tower Hamlets SSD , has direct experience of the many ethical barriers researchers face when trying to obtain highly personal and sensitive information from those cared for about physical abuse . |