Example sentences of "after about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about two weeks , long cracks had developed in the egg , lines of longitude . |
| 2 | After about two minutes the ladies resumed talking , but this time in English . |
| 3 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 4 | Both crabs died after about two months , but I have been unable to find any information on them . |
| 5 | I can live with my fish house , though those not used to it can find it oppressive , but after about two minutes in a space-heated one I start to wilt visibly . |
| 6 | Er now after about two years , er you got more proficient and then , of course , you could also help with the stripping down of the waggons . |
| 7 | After about two years she met a man whom she loved and agreed to marry although worried that her daughter had stayed very withdrawn from him . |
| 8 | After about two minutes of watching I realised that it was a travel programme and they were in Corfu so I changed the channel . |
| 9 | After about two hundred yards we stop . |
| 10 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 11 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 12 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |
| 13 | After about fifteen seconds he removed-them and turned to Halzman , who had also removed his . |
| 14 | After about fifteen minutes they arrived at their destination . |
| 15 | After about fifteen seconds the stern appeared . |
| 16 | The most popular candidate in Teheran , after about nine per cent of the city 's vote had been counted , was Hojatoleslam Akbar Husseini , a cleric and the presenter of a popular weekly television programme offering Islamic advice to resolve family problems . |
| 17 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 18 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 19 | After about eight weeks he was discharged home , although he was still confined to a wheelchair . |
| 20 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
| 21 | ‘ After about 45 seconds it stopped and I managed to get out . |
| 22 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |
| 23 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |
| 24 | So after about thirty five minutes what are you actually taking in ? |
| 25 | After about 70 minutes Rocky began to tire . |
| 26 | First , after about twelve miles and just after you have driven through the limestone defile of Escot , there is Sarrance , a colourless , silent village these days but an old place of pilgrimage and of literary inspiration . |
| 27 | The ‘ A ’ or No. 1 solution is then applied liberally and after about 10 minutes the second solution is applied . |
| 28 | ‘ After about 10 minutes her heart beat slowed then stopped , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ After about 10 minutes her heart beat slowed then stopped , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The human baby 's sense of smell develops gradually , and after about 10 days an infant can identify the smell of its mother 's breasts . |