Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty-eight days they would be taken out , washed and packed in hogsheads , and pressed for about ten days . |
| 2 | On Borichill Mor , NR307652 , a horse shoe shaped burnt patch was found and dated to about 1745 BC . |
| 3 | In the antique firearms section there was a pair of pistols fitted with a detonating system which used fulminate and dated from about 1809 ; there was an intriguing possible English royal connection and this , together with their unusual detonation , helped them sell at £5,000 . |
| 4 | Clary is easily grown from seed sown in spring , and thinned to about 23cm ( 9in ) apart each way . |
| 5 | Coriander seed is sown outdoors in sun and a light , well-drained soil in April-May , and thinned to about 20cm ( 8in ) apart . |
| 6 | Cecilia saw the bear and thought for about five seconds that it was real . |
| 7 | Some of the barley is used for malting to make beer but about two-thirds is fed to beef cattle which are fattened quickly and slaughtered at about 1½ years old . |
| 8 | He touched his foot to the brake and slowed to about thirty . |
| 9 | The Jewish population of Vienna increased exponentially from 1857 to 1880 and peaked at about 12 per cent of the city 's population in 1890 . |
| 10 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 11 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 12 | Sadly , wayward genius GEORGIE BEST , who turned up with The Farm , slickly eluded our lensman and left after about ten minutes to dance his studded boots off at some West End nightclub . |
| 13 | Walpole-Bond noted that few of the early historians of Sussex birds recorded the Redshank as a breeding species , and that there was a marked increase and spread from about 1900 . |
| 14 | Friedlander eventually focused the project on Ohio and Pennsylvania and photographed for about 13 weeks in the different seasons during the course of a year . |
| 15 | During this period a regular wintering flock established itself at Chichester gravel pits , which reached a peak of 43 birds in December 1969 and accounted for about half the records for each winter . |
| 16 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |