Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 2 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |
| 3 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 4 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 5 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 6 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 7 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 8 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 9 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 10 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 11 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 12 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 13 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 14 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 15 | It tapers from the heel , where it 's about an inch across , down to about a quarter of that at the headstock 's tip . |
| 16 | Yeah , oh , it 's down to about a quarter of normal it is |
| 17 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 18 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |
| 19 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 20 | Some LEAs employ teachers to visit families with a pre-school child before they start school , usually for about an hour a week , to play with the child and involve the parents in finding out more about the child 's development and needs . |
| 21 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 22 | ‘ I anticipate that my husband will be home in about an hour . ’ |
| 23 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 24 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 25 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 26 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 27 | " Intense gunfire " broke out for about an hour near the government palace in central Algiers soon after the decree was announced , Agence France-Presse reported . |
| 28 | He goes out for about an hour on a Saturday if I , if he 's forced out I said , out oh get out please yeah they 're not the ideal things that they should be wearing , but , like because the |
| 29 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 30 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |