Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] for about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 2 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 3 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 4 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 5 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |