Example sentences of "[noun sg] about eight " in BNC.
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1 | He brings me a cup of tea about eight . |
2 | Pick me up from work about eight o'clock . |
3 | ‘ Time difference about eight hours with LA , yes ? ’ |
4 | It was a room about eight to ten feet square , offering , as an estate agent with whom Henry was dealing had put it , ‘ a superb prospect of a ventilator shaft ’ . |
5 | It is the second dairy breed of the country , strong in its constitution and sound in the feet , calving easily and with a gestation period about eight days shorter than that of the Friesian . |
6 | In their midst about eight Bisus , ranging from fourteen to sixty years old , were " performing " . |
7 | Well what I 'll do I 'll give him a call tomorrow night about eight o'clock . |
8 | Her right hand held a mangled silver photograph frame about eight inches by six . |
9 | When it was time for ‘ lights out ’ , she and Jake left the room together , and out in the corridor Jake told her , ‘ Mrs Aitken usually serves supper about eight , so if you want to freshen up you have a bit of time . |
10 | But she drops that kid about eight in the morning ! |
11 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
12 | ‘ It 's a Chieftain auxiliary generator about eight miles down Bayonet Trail , ’ he briefs his crew . |
13 | er , er , something about he , in hospital about eight weeks |
14 | There was a large piece of meat on a plate about eight metres across . |
15 | ‘ I come every year to this festival and really enjoy it , ’ said Mr Brook , who left journalism about eight years ago when his marriage broke up . |
16 | She said that she would travel by the next one and should be at the hotel about eight clock . |
17 | The mustard seed produces a shrub about eight to ten feet tall , with branches strong enough to support birds and give them shelter . |
18 | Nabb made its first move away from a manual system about eight years ago when the UK office installed a single-user version of Omicron PowerSystems . |
19 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |