Example sentences of "at about two " in BNC.

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1 After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time .
2 The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year .
3 When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you .
4 Between 1870 and 1930 average completed family size decreased from five or six children to three and has now stabilized at about two .
5 She 'd finally drifted off to sleep at about two , woken an hour later feeling cold and slipped under the covers , resting fitfully until room service brought her breakfast at eight .
6 At about two o'clock there was an explosion so close that Anne threw herself across her mother to protect her .
7 At about two o'clock , we picked up our packs and trudged off .
8 Granny says she heard Matthew 's key in the lock at about two twenty-five … ’
9 " The ebb runs at about two knots at half-tide , " the Inspector said .
10 A few nights later I was woken by a noise at about two in the morning .
11 The sword is returned to the Cathedral the following Thursday at about two o'clock in the morning .
12 He stayed for lunch , and then at about two o'clock Bill and Faye arrived , the latter walking from the car to the house but going straight to the bedroom to lie down .
13 Right now I do n't want to get you up I want to encourage you to set your alarm for seven o'clock , quite low , and when I come on at about two minutes past just snuggle up to your wireless and enjoy the music and the news and the views about the religious scene in and around North Yorkshire and beyond .
14 The nodules in which the worms live first appear at about two months from infection .
15 Well if he says he wa he wants his wife to have twenty thousand a year , I mean you 're looking at about two hundred and fifty , three hundred thousand gross
16 Well if I could choose I would go to bed at about two o'clock in the morning and get up at about ten o'clock in the morning .
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