Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since . |
| 2 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 3 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 4 | Thus , the first ischaemic episode primarily translocates PKC into the membranes , where it will stay for about an hour . |
| 5 | The train stopped for about two minutes . |
| 6 | They show that grants worth about £350 million were made last year , the first full year of means-tested grants , compared with £1 billion in 1989 . |
| 7 | You need a firm base allowing for about 30mm of sand plus the thickness of the slabs so your path will lie flush with the lawn soil level . |
| 8 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 9 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 10 | It owns three subsidiaries : Charles Farris , which makes enormous church candles that sell for about £35 each ; Aidee International , which manufactures pottery Beatrix Potter soap dishes in Devon ; and Candle Flare , a Colchester-based maker of Christmas decorations . |
| 11 | Today good , unconverted barns in his area sell for about £75,000 . |
| 12 | Battered by Apple , Compaq and Dell , NEC belatedly announced big price cuts in February , but its computers still sell for about ¥150,000 more than those of its foreign competitors . |
| 13 | These antiques of the future sell for about £375 in rosewood . |
| 14 | Erm sell for about eighty seven pound including spacers so I was gon na go in at about eighty three , eighty four but it 's the new pricing company so I 've got to ask your permission have n't I ? |
| 15 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 16 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 17 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 18 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 19 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 20 | The guide price for Cradley was £1.75m , and market sources believe it sold for about £1.9m , suggesting a yield less than 4.5% . |
| 21 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 22 | For 400 years the city has been divided between Estonians and Latvians , but today Russian speakers account for about 40 per cent of the population . |
| 23 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 24 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 25 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 26 | Interbank deposits regularly account for about 70 per cent of the market 's gross size . |
| 27 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 28 | Altogether , United 's brands account for about 4.5 per cent of all beer and 15 per cent of lager sales . |
| 29 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |