Example sentences of "time [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 2 | I mean I know he 's going to be out sometime this afternoon , so I think any time after about six o'clock |
| 3 | Curiously , in their paper suggesting the constancy of the solar diameter , Parkinson and his colleagues did mention that the data from transits of Mercury show hints of a periodic variation in the Sun 's size with a cycle time of about 80 years . |
| 4 | As far as can be gauged , Wadhurst had a population at the time of about 1000 . |
| 5 | The quantitative details of classical electromagnetism yield an estimated time of about 10 -8 seconds for this collapse to occur . |
| 6 | And we want to know let's say we 're interested in a a time of about ten hours or something . |
| 7 | This gives a time of about 1.3 seconds for head movements , rather less than a quarter of the earlier figure . |
| 8 | One of the advantages of cyclosporine is its rapid onset of action ( about two weeks ) compared with the mean response time of about three months with 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine . |
| 9 | In one case changes were being proposed because the computer calculated a difference in response time of about five or six seconds , he claimed . |
| 10 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 11 | The Mermaid Restaurant , Rock-a-Nore Road , Hastings TN34 3DW ( 0424 438100 ) serves meals from breakfast time till about 7.30pm , seven days a week . |
| 12 | There was no privacy , the ‘ moving wallpaper ’ simply ran from the time they returned from industrial therapy to tea-and-bed time at about 9.15p.m . |
| 13 | Right what do I some time at about eleven o'clock |
| 14 | We 're coming forward in time by about 5 years this month . |
| 15 | Recipes in magazines and books ( and cooking times on many pre-packed foods ) are generally based on 600 to 700 W. If you buy a more powerful oven , you 'll need to reduce the cooking time by about 25 per cent , or lower the power level to the equivalent of 600 to 700 W and cook for the normal time . |
| 16 | If you buy a 500 W oven , you 'll need to lengthen the cooking time by about 30 per cent . |
| 17 | Travelling to the new premises also reduced Mrs Cahuac 's net pay by 7 per cent and increased her travelling time by about 40 minutes each way . |