Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 2 | The weighing , recording and allocation of prizes goes on until about 4pm , when the winning berries go on display until 7.30pm . |
| 3 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 4 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 5 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 6 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 7 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 8 | It went straight across the area where Deane wellied in from about 6yds . |
| 9 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 10 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
| 11 | Officer education itself is presently carried on by about 140 officer commissioning middle and higher military schools , offering four to five year courses and conferring higher education degrees : fully 13 per cent of all higher education in the USSR is now carried out in the military sector . |
| 12 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 13 | NORTH WEST ‘ Properties costing over £100,000 have come down by about 20 per cent , semis by about ten per cent and terraces by about five per cent , ’ says Clive Watkin of the Clive Watkin Partnership on the Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 14 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 15 | Peter Karsten , marketing director of Surfax , which brews the low-alcohol Clausthaler , comments : ‘ The number of products available has dropped from 70 to 50 and it needs to come down to about 20 . ’ |
| 16 | Costs need to come down to about £1.13 before solar power makes an impact on the energy market . |
| 17 | After a heart-stopping few minutes it was realized that it could be just squeezed through with about three-quarters of an inch to spare . |
| 18 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 19 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 20 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 21 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 22 | Warm up for about 22 minutes . |
| 23 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 24 | It should be possible to have a thorough survey carried out for about £400 on a modest house , and it is sometimes worth every penny , though with the limitations I have described . |
| 25 | The cost should average out at about £6 per page , less for longer runs , but you will have to allow for the extra time . |
| 26 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 27 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 28 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 29 | Mineral traffic lingered on until about 1912 . |
| 30 | Would one light on for about seven hours per day stop algae growth altogether ? |