Example sentences of "there [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 2 | Hold them there for about half a minute ; then move to the feet . |
| 3 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 4 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 5 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 6 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 7 | With a colossal effort , she managed to hold it there for about ten seconds . |
| 8 | For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute . |
| 9 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |
| 10 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 11 | You place the slightly warm etching plate , so if you pop it on there for about half a second to get the printing ink nicely mobile and you put it printing ink face up . |
| 12 | I must have sat there for about half an hour or more . |
| 13 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 14 | Keith stayed with us there for about three weeks . |
| 15 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 16 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 17 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | He 'd have to pull it very tight and hold it there for about three minutes to make sure . |
| 19 | And he was out there for about three years , he come back home and of cou just travelled the country , again working on the farms and that . |
| 20 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 21 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 22 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 23 | I was on the circular sa saw there for about eight or ten years . |
| 24 | er and then I think Oh I was there for about two years after |
| 25 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
| 26 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 27 | Malcolm went in first and was there for about twenty minutes . |
| 28 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 29 | I lived down there for about five years . |
| 30 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |