Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 2 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 3 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 4 | Railfreight said all the physical difficulties could be overcome with investment , but all the options seemed to start at about £100,000 . |
| 5 | When they 'd chattered for about ten minutes Walt said : |
| 6 | The adoption of contraception was one response : illegitimate births began to decline from about 1850 throughout Europe ( Shorter et al . |
| 7 | The early Iron Age that followed lasted until about 800 BC , when the first city-states emerged . |
| 8 | With inflation expected to run at about 5 per cent , these boosts represent real gains . |
| 9 | At that time the total number of staff employed amounted to about 3400 including those at the Head Office in London . |
| 10 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 11 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 12 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 13 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 14 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 15 | The crowd had swollen to about 70 by now , standing in a respectful arc , as if the stage was protected by a sci-fi forcefield . |
| 16 | By the day of the funeral , numbers had swollen to about 80 . |
| 17 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 18 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 19 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 20 | Extraction levels had fallen to about 86 per cent of 1991 quantities according to government calculations . |
| 21 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 22 | East Glasgow 's population had fallen from about 100,000 in 1961 to 45,000 in 1976 . |
| 23 | By 1988 this had dropped to about 15 per cent of spruce , and other species such as pine and fir showed similar improvements . |
| 24 | This old yellow-brown , black-muzzled breed from the Poitou region numbered 728,000 in 1932 , but since 1945 the breed has been declining rapidly and by 1977 there were only 35,000 ; three years later the population had dropped to about 20,000 . |
| 25 | By 1989 , this had grown to about 55,000 solicitors and 5000 barristers . |
| 26 | By 1989 , the transaction systems had grown to about fifty per cent of the total . |
| 27 | The price of an egg ( about 10 pfennigs before the war ) had risen to about 80 million marks by November 1923 . |
| 28 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 30 | By January 1985 almost 300 heavy goods vehicle movements per 24 hours were recorded ; by 1988 the figure had risen to about 750 . |