Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 2 | And we have 25 sets to give away , each worth about £17.50 . |
| 3 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 4 | The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four . |
| 5 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 6 | I ran through the fields , laid low for about two hours , then I made my way to the motorway and hitched it to Birmingham . |
| 7 | ‘ I would do that for about four days , and then go off on something else . |
| 8 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They lived like that for about two years . |
| 10 | I had thought that for about five days . |
| 11 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 12 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 13 | scheme or something like that for about half the price . |
| 14 | Do you know it twenty to six we played that for about two hours was it ? |
| 15 | I was in that for about three years . |
| 16 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 17 | Is that worth about . |
| 18 | to understand that be sorry after about five minutes . |
| 19 | Turn down the heat so that the water simmers gently , and poach spoonfuls of meringue in this for about 60 seconds each side . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 24 | er and I 'll just run through this for about five minutes and then any questions and we 'll go . |
| 25 | I felt like this for about four months now . |
| 26 | And the Dutch and the English put up with this for about fifteen seconds . |
| 27 | I was seething at your sign person because I thought we have no way of doing this for about at least two months |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 ! |