Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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% . |
| 3 | The foundation 's director , Mr Paul Meyer , went to Antwerp to meet Edouards , who asked for about £250 . |
| 4 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 5 | Four or five eggs are laid and incubated for about four weeks . |
| 6 | The Volvo skidded for about fifty yards , its speed gradually slowing . |
| 7 | The rest of the convoy had continued on its way , but the captain of Tekoa stopped for about five hours to rescue men — his ship was a sitting target for U-boats . ’ |
| 8 | We swam for about quarter of an hour and then walked back to the cave , dried ourselves as best we could on our shirts , and drove on , chests bare . |
| 9 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 10 | 1982 , Academic Press ) , the deposits making up the platforms there accumulated naturally as sea levels gradually rose between about 4000 and 2500 years ago . |
| 11 | In England alone — the only country for which even approximate figures have been worked out — the number of monks rose from about 850 to well over 5,000 between 1066 and 1154 . |
| 12 | During this period the population of Danzig rose from about 50,000 in the 1830s to about 70,000 by 1860 . |
| 13 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 14 | They suggest that the number of political offenders from the intelligentsia rose from about 1000 in the 1860s to between 3000 and 4000 in each of the following three decades , before increasing very sharply in the period of the revolution of 1905 . |
| 15 | CAMPOP 's researches have shown that during the 100 years after 1540 England 's population rose from about 2.75 millions to roughly 5 millions . |
| 16 | During the seventeenth century Norwich 's population rose from about 12,000 or 13,000 to around 30,000 , an extraordinary rate of expansion in a century where growth was generally sluggish after the 1630s . |
| 17 | The pre-tax rate of profit for business rose from about 17 per cent in 1955 to 24 per cent in 1961 . |
| 18 | Their ages ranged from about fourteen to fifty , but the majority were youngsters out at work all day who were losing out on regular schooling . |
| 19 | The length of labour of the mothers in this book ranged from about five hours to twenty-six hours . |
| 20 | Yeah there was about three sets in there and they ranged from about seven ninety nine up I think . |
| 21 | The quickening pace of commerce increased the urban population : a mere 3 per cent of the population in 1700 , it rose to about 8 per cent in 1800 and reached around 11 per cent by the 1850s . |
| 22 | Overall , representation increased the chances of success to about one in three , but if representation by a friend or relative is excluded , then the success rate for those with ‘ expert ’ representation rose to about two in five cases . |
| 23 | Annual money wage increases rose to about twice those of the mid-fifties , and product wages ( real wages in terms of the product ) accelerated as well . |
| 24 | Shortly after this he was attacked by a Bf110 , but as this approached to about 100 yards it received a direct hit from an anti-aircraft shell and blew up . |
| 25 | It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday . |
| 26 | And then Raymond phoned at about quarter to seven . |
| 27 | Even with a mileage clock that stopped at about 190,000 miles , he still runs to perfection , never gets clamped or a parking ticket , and blends beautifully into the city background . |
| 28 | Almost total clearance occurred at about 3500 B.P. The Standing Stones of Callanish are thought to date from 3750 — 3500 B.P. |
| 29 | The accident occurred at about 3.30 p.m . |
| 30 | The collision occurred at about 9.15 this morning , when there was torrential rain across much of the Cotswolds . |