Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] about the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
2 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
3 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
4 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
5 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
6 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
7 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
8 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
9 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |