Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 2 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 3 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 4 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |
| 5 | The field is inclined at about 10.8° from the spin axis of Jupiter , and the centre of the field is offset from the centre of mass of Jupiter by about 0.10 R J , mainly along the equatorial plane . |
| 6 | The Philistines were a people organised into a federation of five city states , who ruled over parts of Palestine from about BC 1175 . |
| 7 | At 200 square metres , the Great Orpheus Pavement was the crowning glory of a luxurious 65-room Roman villa built near the Cotswold village of Woodchester in about AD 325 . |
| 8 | I finally spent about 20 minutes just enjoying the VFR day , pottering round within sight of Breighton at about 1000 ft and occasionally putting the Aeronca into a tight turn over a copse , or a particular field , just for the sheer exhilaration of flying this aerial Citroen 2CV . |
| 9 | ‘ Deemy ’ estimated the population of Irkutsk at about 175,000 . |
| 10 | This is a model of the busy waterfront of the Roman city of London in about AD 100 , based on a series of recent archaeological excavations , including investigation of submerged ships . |
| 11 | The Apple USA division of Apple Computer Inc authorised Wal-Mart Stores Inc to sell a custom version of the Macintosh Performa 400 series computer , initially through 500 Wal-Mart stores ; Wal-Mart plans to expand distribution of Performa to about 1,400 locations by year-end . |
| 12 | Croatian forces on Aug. 2 won back Kostajnica ( in the Banija region ) but lost the villages of Erdut , Dalj and and Aljmas near Osijek with about 80 people , most of them Croatians , being killed in the tank bombardment . |
| 13 | Farmworkers led animals to safety as firemen tackled the blaze in a garage and storeroom at East House Farm , Kelloe , near Durham at about 4am . |
| 14 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 15 | On Tuesday Tony was to travel by train due to leave Machynlleth for Pwllheli at about 9.45 a.m. , after an early breakfast . |
| 16 | Harper said : ‘ I went out with Rebecca for about three months , then I went out with Emma . |
| 17 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 18 | well he has I mean er my my daughter-in-law said he takes he mu he very often drives he 's got a season ticket , an annual season ticket t er to take the train but more often than not he drives because he gets into the into London at about quarter to seven in the morning he goes and you know , parks the car and then goes and gets breakfast and she says he always takes at least one shirt in the car with him to change into . |
| 19 | In the St John Nepomuk Chapel are paintings and frescos by V. V. Reiner from about 1730 . |
| 20 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 21 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 22 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 23 | The only option it could offer , said Mr Kerfoot , was one involving transfer of the oil to road at sidings in Middlesbrough at about £35 a tonne . |
| 24 | But it does not arrive in Salamanca until about one-thirty the next day . |
| 25 | The 23-year-old woman was walking home along Blackthorn Avenue on the Greenstead estate in Colchester at about 11.35 pm on Tuesday when the man grabbed her from behind . |
| 26 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 27 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 28 | At the time there was a postal strike and I did n't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks . |
| 29 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 30 | The family remained in Exeter until about 1760 , when they moved to London . |