Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 2 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 4 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 5 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 6 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 7 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 8 | After an electrolysis current had been passed for about three months ( to charge the palladium with hydrogen ) , a small excess of heat was observed of the order of one watt or less . |
| 9 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 10 | The UDA had been blamed for about one-third of the killings of civilians in Northern Ireland over the previous 23 years ( more than 2,000 civilians having been killed during this period ) . |