Example sentences of "and [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The north side of the market square , the Markt , is lined with them , and for about £6 you can have three basic courses . |
| 2 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
| 3 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 4 | She fell into a trance and for about five hours received fifteen consecutive visions and revelations in which she saw Christ , the Virgin Mary and the Trinity itself and heard Jesus ' explanations of these ‘ showings ’ . |
| 5 | And for about five minutes they rave about how flattered they are , a little bemused but clearly touched . |
| 6 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
| 7 | To underline the point I thought I 'd show you this four year average one thing that the exercise shows is that between them our book , entertainment and fine china businesses normally account for about seven percent of Pearson 's annual profit in their first half and for about thirty three percent of our profit in the full year . |
| 8 | And for about six months , I did n't get anything . |
| 9 | Well we were trying to remember the lines to that and she came in and for about half an hour she gave a rendition . |
| 10 | It 's Sunderland , and after about a hundred and twenty years under the sea , the lustre 's still lustrous ! ’ |
| 11 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 12 | I 'll have to see how it goes and after about three years , I 'll see if I feel like doing any more . |
| 13 | Erm a and f at first we had one or two people coming in , but then it , it , it dr it dropped off very quickly , and after about three months , I think , we decided we were n't getting enough take-up , w that we would not have the sessions in the flats any more , but that we would encourage people to come to the Law Centre if they had any problems . |
| 14 | Although I did not care for her looks , the yacht-like appearance had great potential for undercover work and after about two months working her around the Solent and Poole area I was quite impressed . |
| 15 | And after about seven glasses |
| 16 | In fact , there were only two short periods , of ten months in 1924 and of about two years and three months from 1929 and 1931 when it was out of power . |
| 17 | In the river valleys and levels densities of just over four pairs per square kilometre have been noted in the Arun valley , and of about three pairs per square kilometre in Pevensey Levels . |
| 18 | Precise average figures are rather meaningless , for the range might be wide , but it is useful to think in terms of an average age at marriage of twenty-seven to twenty-nine for men and of about twenty-six for women ; the nobility and gentry usually married a little earlier . |
| 19 | A massive coral with irregular knobs , composed of corallites with a diameter less than ½ cm , with polygonal outlines , and with about twelve prominent septa like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 20 | Pavel was feeling as loose and unconnected as a bag of spanners , and with about as much energy . |
| 21 | The lack of financial resources affects the quantity of projects which can be undertaken in the city , and with about £2.5 million in their pockets ( Glasgow spent around £40 million last year ) , I asked Lewis Clohossey , organiser at the Dublin European City of Culture office , whether this had been a hindrance . |
| 22 | As the ship 's bow was manoeuvred into the wind and with about a third of the anchor cable out , she ran aground at 7.30pm . |
| 23 | It was a sprawling split-level place where you could take on board anything from a glass of beer to a four-course dinner plus the right wines at each course and with about as much choice about where to sit : at tables in the middle at booths and alcoves at the sides on the bar stools on other stools up against long shelves . |
| 24 | It is intended to be non-competitive and less about following rules than allowing people to express their own feelings and ideas . |
| 25 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 26 | Latvians , 77 per cent of the population of their republic before the war , had fallen to 52 per cent in the 1989 census , and to about a third of the population of their capital city , Riga . |
| 27 | The two most conspicuous features are the large holdings of UK securities , amounting to over 40 per cent of total assets and to about 60 per cent when combined with overseas securities . |
| 28 | By the latter part of Henry VIII 's reign the quantity of trade , as measured by customs payments , had shrunk catastrophically , to an average of just over £2,000 annually in 1535–40 and to about £663 annually in 1541–45 . |
| 29 | The young hedgehogs are reared by their mothers , and at about four weeks of age they may be seen foraging with her in the darkness . |
| 30 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |