Example sentences of "[prep] about [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 2 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 3 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 4 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 5 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 6 | If , if you look at their work , for about the first hundred years after all of them , their work was widely , er , disparaged and rejected . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 8 | for about the fifth time |
| 9 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 10 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 11 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 14 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 15 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 16 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 18 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 19 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 20 | I was saying to this bloke at work West Ham must be the only positive transfer to give West Ham pay for about the last twenty five years |
| 21 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 22 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
| 23 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 24 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 25 | No you 're not but in fact studies show after about the first ten minutes , people are n't absorbing much anyway |
| 26 | After about the fourth or fifth month into the course of treatments , I began to feel a lessening of the pain , but not once had she confided that anything was wrong . |
| 27 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 28 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 29 | N no , we went into about the second or third I think , is there one up there one up there |
| 30 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |