Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was at about 2am on a Sunday morning and the sight of the apparition frightened him . |
| 2 | This was at about 3 p.m . |
| 3 | According to his estimate , the result of perusing estate agents ' windows in Ipswich and Sudbury , Wyvis Hall by the end of 1972 was worth about £23,000 . |
| 4 | Now the member ship up to nine September nineteen twenty six was between about three and four hundred thousand but usually what happened is that when people would join they , they put their , their name down and it was the whole family joined |
| 5 | That is worth about £2 billion a year of the overseas markets won by the industry serving the North sea . |
| 6 | But from the Han time onwards , that is after about 200 BC , the inflow type predominated . |
| 7 | Oh the wise one you 're talking about five hundred , because that 's worth about thirty two K |
| 8 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 9 | That was until about a year ago when the last Silicon party was held in Utrecht . |
| 10 | That was until about two years ago when unfortunately the home where she worked was closed down and she was made redundant . |
| 11 | The third was for about 200 people paying £15 each on a Thames pleasure cruiser , the Viscountess , in the November . |