Example sentences of "[prep] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's Sunderland , and after about a hundred and twenty years under the sea , the lustre 's still lustrous ! ’ |
| 2 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 3 | After about a week , I noticed the vehicle had settled about 15mm more on the off-side — noticeable on a level surface . |
| 4 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 5 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 6 | I later discovered this is the colouring of juvenile specimens and the darker colouring should appear after the fish has reached 20cm — mine duly obliged after about a week . |
| 7 | After about a year , and with a paid-up membership of about fifteen men and five women , we decided that we would try to organize our own disco at the town hall Assembly Rooms . |
| 8 | After about a week of this behaviour , and some digging , the pair spawned on the vertical side of this rock , laying several hundred thread-stalked brown eggs , which were guarded by both parents . |
| 9 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its facsimile software for Unix unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 10 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 11 | After about a week , she begins to lay . |
| 12 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 13 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 14 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 15 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 16 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 17 | When I ca n't take it any more ( after about an hour ) , he sits back in triumph . |
| 18 | After about an hour , when Thornfield Hall was completely silent again , there was a cautious knock on my door . |
| 19 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 20 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 21 | Decca is offering a more modest Mozart sampler of about a dozen compact discs . |
| 22 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 23 | This is in line with the industry 's contribution of about a quarter of the ‘ Gross Highland product ’ . |
| 24 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 25 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 26 | We were to mount a dummy attack on the R.A.F. airfield at Heliopolis , just outside Cairo , a distance of about a hundred miles across open desert … . |
| 27 | Olomouc has a population of about a hundred thousand but it 's a small town : I kept bumping into people I 'd already met , and Irena appeared to know everybody . |
| 28 | Violence flared first in Helston , where an angry crowd of about a thousand gathered as William Body , a Commissioner charged with destroying every relic of popery , was desecrating the Church . |
| 29 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 30 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |