Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about a [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 2 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 3 | The Sian area is an absolute treasure house of archaeological and historical relics — the seat of Chinese imperial government for about a thousand years up to 9th c . |
| 4 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 5 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 6 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 7 | During most of its lifetime of about a billion years , the star will generate heat at its center by converting oxygen into helium . |