Example sentences of "[prep] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 2 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 3 | After about a year , and with a paid-up membership of about fifteen men and five women , we decided that we would try to organize our own disco at the town hall Assembly Rooms . |
| 4 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its facsimile software for Unix unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 5 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 6 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 7 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 8 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 9 | After about a week , I noticed the vehicle had settled about 15mm more on the off-side — noticeable on a level surface . |
| 10 | I later discovered this is the colouring of juvenile specimens and the darker colouring should appear after the fish has reached 20cm — mine duly obliged after about a week . |
| 11 | After about a week of this behaviour , and some digging , the pair spawned on the vertical side of this rock , laying several hundred thread-stalked brown eggs , which were guarded by both parents . |
| 12 | After about a week , she begins to lay . |
| 13 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 14 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 15 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 16 | When I ca n't take it any more ( after about an hour ) , he sits back in triumph . |
| 17 | After about an hour , when Thornfield Hall was completely silent again , there was a cautious knock on my door . |
| 18 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 19 | This is in line with the industry 's contribution of about a quarter of the ‘ Gross Highland product ’ . |
| 20 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 21 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 22 | Will it not produce the equivalent of about a quarter of the nuclear arsenals of both the Soviet Union and the United States at their peak by the year 2000 ? |
| 23 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 24 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 25 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 26 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 27 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 28 | Both involved a delay of about an hour , and in the second case an officer was forced to go in a staff car to attend the patient . |
| 29 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 30 | This increase in large group studies is associated with about a 50% fall in articles by one to three authors ( data not shown ) . |