Example sentences of "[v-ing] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 2 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 3 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 4 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 5 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 6 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 7 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 8 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 9 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 10 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 11 | After driving for about ten minutes Jed looked away to the right . |
| 12 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | After living for about eighty years , they become ill and miserable . |
| 14 | The harsh measures of the transitory period are expected to lower the standard of living for about 20 per cent of the population . |
| 15 | We 're looking for about two big paragraphs or so plus some photographs , to go onto one of these . |
| 16 | But erm , that one you 'll be looking for about five hundred for the ways |
| 17 | Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week . |
| 18 | Looking for about twenty minutes or so . |
| 19 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 20 | For example , in one CSE mode three which has been operating for about ten years , the course objectives are divided into content and process . |
| 21 | Sophie said , ‘ We 've got enough money to keep ourselves going for about six months . |
| 22 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 23 | It 's been going for about two now |
| 24 | They , they reckon they 're going for about ninety five to a hundred and five down there . |
| 25 | And that is I think going for about ninety eight . |
| 26 | I think something like that one could be going for about eighty five thousand . |
| 27 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 28 | You know , we were going for about ten minute . |
| 29 | Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind . |
| 30 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |