Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 3 | Brooke would chair the talks which , he said , would be allowed to continue for about three months , and any agreed outcome would be put to a referendum in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic . |
| 4 | Slightly bruise the leaves , add the boiling water , cover the bowl and allow to stand for about 10 minutes . |
| 5 | However , the simplest method to overcome this potential problem is to fill the pool once with clear water and allow it to stand for about a week . |
| 6 | Leave the batter mixture to stand for about 20–30 minutes . |
| 7 | The synfuel contribution in the US is likely to increase from about 6 million tonnes of oil equivalent ( MTOE ) in 1983 to 20 MTOE in 1990 and perhaps 40 MTOE in 2000 . |
| 8 | Altogether — including the logo design , new stationery ( and , in some cases , new shop fronts ) the cost of the new identity is expected to come to about £600,000 . |
| 9 | I 'll only work in natural light , so in the summer , I 'll be able to work till about eight , which is great . |
| 10 | You will be required to talk for about 15 minutes . |
| 11 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 12 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 13 | There really was not much to do on the plane , you were able to listen to about six different channels on the radio , read , write or drink . |
| 14 | The ones we c we manage to sell at about fifty , fifty five percent margin . |
| 15 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 16 | Cover and leave to marinate for about 2 hours . |
| 17 | In the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 13cm . |
| 18 | It is found in the rivers of Colombia and Peru , and in the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 130mm . |
| 19 | Yet , as he disclosed yesterday , he prefers to stick to about £3,000 per commission . |
| 20 | Get rid of weed seedlings before they become young plants , and thin the herb seedlings when they are large enough to handle to about 6 rum ( t/4 in ) spacing , and when they have filled this , to their final spacing . |
| 21 | Conversely , IDC forecasts that the world market is set to grow at about 20% per year between now and 1996 , by which time it will be worth $58,600m . |
| 22 | The government reckoned that Poles were having to cope with about as much economic pain as they would tolerate . |
| 23 | I mean I have to cope with about five thousand different individuals each week erm at Portslade Community College , erm fifteen hundred full-time eleven to eighteen year olds , and the rest adults from the community coming in to use the college . |
| 24 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 25 | well we 'll have to , I 'll have to go and erm get this dinner going because erm , we 've got to leave about well we want , well we want to leave for about twenty past five then |
| 26 | He was then able to sleep for about half an hour before being taken to theatre . |
| 27 | But our Peruvian and Quebecquois cohabitants are not so keen on the idea — it appears that Brazilian parties are likely to involve a lot of loud music and wild dancing , and to last until about 6 a.m . |
| 28 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
| 29 | I did n't , I did n't get to sleep till about two o'clock . |
| 30 | By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . |