Example sentences of "[prep] about the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 2 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 4 | for about the fifth time |
| 5 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 6 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 7 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 8 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 9 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 10 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 11 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 12 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 13 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 14 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 15 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 17 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 18 | From about the twelfth century and until the Council , every priest was expected to say Mass separately each day . |
| 19 | In school A from about the third form ( as the headmaster pointed out ) black pupils became aware of negative attitudes they felt that the school held towards them . |
| 20 | From about the fourteenth century lay artists became more prominent , sometimes travelling and sometimes settled in urban workshops near wealthy patrons . |
| 21 | Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there . |
| 22 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 23 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 24 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 25 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 26 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 27 | In most individuals , the basi-occipital begins to fuse with the basisphenoid at about the seventeenth year , and they are usually completely joined by the twentieth to twenty-third year . |
| 28 | At about the seventeenth day the first butterflies will probably start to emerge . |
| 29 | By about the fifth month they will be able to hear the baby 's heartbeat with a stethoscope , and may feel if the baby moves — in any case , they will check with you that you can feel movements . |
| 30 | It did n't work , and by about the third instalment the outcry was such that we abandoned it . |