Example sentences of "have [verb] in about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 2 | The casual unauthorised assumption of the word Royal into the College 's title is generally thought to have occurred in about 1828 . |
| 3 | Two and one half inches of rain had fallen in about two hours , the sky clearing just before sundown . |
| 4 | I had put in about two hours detecting time by now and these were the only two non-ferrous items I had found apart from some scrap lead . |
| 5 | Although it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s , cruising had begun in about 1844 when P & O's cruise through the Mediterranean was described by the writer William Makepeace Thackeray , and Mark Twain wrote about a cruise of 1868 from New York to the Mediterranean in his book Innocents Abroad . |
| 6 | That , Anno 1260 , or about 200 years after the Norman Conquest , the kingdom had 2,750,000 people , or half the present number ; so that the people of England have doubled in about 435 years last past ; |