Example sentences of "this for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er and I 'll just run through this for about five minutes and then any questions and we 'll go . |
| 2 | You 're to go to Saffron Walden and then you 're supposed to make friends and all this sort of , and he went through all this for about five minutes and this lad |
| 3 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 5 | I felt like this for about four months now . |
| 6 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 7 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 8 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 9 | Turn down the heat so that the water simmers gently , and poach spoonfuls of meringue in this for about 60 seconds each side . |
| 10 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 11 | Go along this for about 50 yards , then turn off right and drop down towards the wall and then towards a big double metal gate ahead . |