Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 2 | The Commission calculates , moreover , that the job of cross-checking between the customs departments of each member state into the validity of traders ' declarations would mean an exchange in electronic mail between them of about 20,000 million characters a year . |
| 3 | A typical Saturday at the station begins for me at about 7.30am . |
| 4 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 5 | The purchase of a tractor was often part-financed by the forest which made use of it for about half the year . |
| 6 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 7 | Conjugation may involve the transfer of anything from about 30 to over 100 genes . |
| 8 | The solar-wind image must rotate too : in fact it is sweeping past us at about 400 km/s . |
| 9 | I think there 's some in I think I saw some instructions that ideally they were looking for about something like about four hours of lectures and about four hours of y'know kind of more tutorial like interactions . |
| 10 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
| 11 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 12 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 13 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 14 | I was with her for about an hour . |
| 15 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 16 | Emma went out with him for about two months |
| 17 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 18 | He put it on and walked round with it for about ten minutes before we had the nerve to say anything to him . |
| 19 | ‘ … shit-scared because he 's about to be blasted into particles even smaller and more radioactive than Ronald Reagan 's brain , goes to the loo ; by sheer coincidence the crap he does solidifies in the intense cold of outer space and the pursuing spaceship runs into it at about half the speed of light and is totally destroyed . |
| 20 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 21 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 22 | Wally , Wally I 'm sorry to interrupt you , colleagues , you 're starting to babble a bit , I know you all want to get to the European Fair and the wine and the cheese and all that sort of thing just bear with us for about ten minutes . |
| 23 | People were interested in it for about five minutes . |
| 24 | By any measure , obviously , TV-watching was the key development of the period , growing from nil to about 26 hours per head of the population per week ( Tables 6.9 and 6.10 ) . |
| 25 | Total revenue ranges from nil to about £55,000 . |
| 26 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 27 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 28 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 29 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 30 | Leave both glasses in the same place and keep an eye on them for about half an hour . |