Example sentences of "they [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shape the mixture into smallish hamburgers in the palm of your hands and , turning them once , grill them for about 5-7 minutes depending on how rare you like the meat . |
| 2 | Outgoing ministers may buy them for about £75 , but the boxes must be fitted with new locks to preserve the secret of their mechanisms . |
| 3 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 5 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 6 | Leave both glasses in the same place and keep an eye on them for about half an hour . |
| 7 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 8 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 9 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 10 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 11 | The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year . |
| 12 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 13 | The children face them from about 3 metres away . |
| 14 | If using hangers , pad them to about three times the usual extent with acid-free tissue or with polyester wadding covered with white cotton ( which can also be used to pad out the shoulders and shapes of packed costumes ) . |
| 15 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |