Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 2 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 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 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
| 7 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 8 | Warm up for about 22 minutes . |
| 9 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 10 | Would one light on for about seven hours per day stop algae growth altogether ? |
| 11 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 12 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 13 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 14 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 15 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 16 | I mean my , one of my friend 's sons , he was a computer man , he was working on his own but he 's in his I should think he 's getting on for about forty six and he was doing freelance but this recession the people who er the firms who were employing him are using their own staff and they 're not calling on him now and er he 's not done any computing for twelve months . |
| 17 | You have n't stayed in for about two months ’ , which is true really . |
| 18 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 19 | But , you know , I mean , if the Uni goes to ten thousand in what what is it , it 's getting up for about ninety five , ninety six ? |
| 20 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 21 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 22 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 23 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 24 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 25 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 26 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 27 | He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again . |
| 28 | We went out for about two years . |
| 29 | We started dating and eventually went out for about three years . |
| 30 | But we usually go out for about three weeks at a time then have a break of about one week to allow everybody to go home to their families , because we think that is absolutely vital ! ’ |