Example sentences of "time about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 1st May an odd selection of individuals , myself included , set out to travel not only South to Totnes Castle , but also back in time about 530 years . |
| 2 | The narrator then proceeds to give some background information , which he situates in a previous time About four months before . |
| 3 | Odd gloves we never used to charge for had to get rid of them and er so apart from those two offices er there was immediately above us was a biggish office spreading over these two blocks of offices , called the ticket office and there at that time about eleven girls working in it on tickets . |
| 4 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |
| 5 | This time about 120 people turned up , mainly business and professional people , clergy , trade-unionists and political leaders . |
| 6 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 7 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 8 | Journey time about 100 minutes Phone 071–387 7070 or contact your local station for details . |
| 9 | Brittany Ferries also has a daily crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo : crossing time about nine hours . |
| 10 | At the time about 35 million Mexicans , over half the country 's population , failed to reach per capita daily food intakes of 2,750 calories and 80 g of protein , the most vulnerable of these being women and children . |
| 11 | The flight is via the USA with only one stop ; travel time about 30 hours out and 27 hours back . |
| 12 | At that time about 40 per cent of production workers in assembly were non-Swedish , a situation the company found unattractive because of the costs of recruitment , training , and supervision . |
| 13 | Geoffrey Pearson 's recent Hooligan : a History of Respectable Fears gives a persuasive account of law-and-order myths , which shows that people continually locate ‘ the good old days ’ of decent behaviour at some time about twenty or thirty years in the past . |
| 14 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 15 | Cos they normally do them after they 've done their morning surgery do n't they , some time about half ten or eleven . |
| 16 | I made my way back to the orchard at Brigade H.Q , the time about 12.30 a.m . |
| 17 | After the short hearing , the crowd , by this time about three hundred strong , carried Gerry Fitt and Ivan Cooper shoulder high down Bishop Street , through the Diamond and down Shipquay Street to Guildhall Square , where there was an impromptu meeting . |
| 18 | Mm , very good , yeah , I was spellbound when I first saw that , saw that about , I think the first time about three years ago |
| 19 | At that time about 90 per cent of households lived in privately-rented accommodation ; the figure has since dropped to 8 per cent . |