Example sentences of "[verb] at about the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 2 | Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later . |
| 3 | The Oedipus complex coincides with the phallic phase , which occurs at about the age of three , in which both boys and girls are interested in the penis . |
| 4 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 5 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 6 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |
| 7 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |