Example sentences of "[adv prt] about the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 2 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 3 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | The family seems to have died out about the 31st year of Edward III . |
| 5 | These are lectures that are pitched directly at their level erm with the knowledge that they have round about the third year in schools , so that they can see some of the problems that physics tackles . |