Example sentences of "[adv] about the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Yes , yes , he was a poor little sole all the way through was n't , but , erm , she does n't sort of tell you much about the good times at the end |
2 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
3 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
4 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
5 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
6 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
7 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
8 | I mean he started at roughly about the same time as me . |
9 | And , it promises to tell ‘ a much wider tale than just XPG4 ’ at around about the same time . |
10 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
11 | So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ? |
12 | ‘ Did another stranger come here about the same time ? ’ |
13 | ‘ You know , ’ said Lesley , busy at the coffee-tray , ‘ I must have been out there about the same time . |
14 | ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard . |
15 | We heard what Mr er Davis had to say this morning , and at at one point was very very important , we are expecting to be in possession of reports on the greenbelt local enquiry and your report er round about the same time , and indeed since they they are in control of proceedings thereafter they are in a position to make sure that they do n't have to reach decisions on one until they are in possession of the other . |
16 | I mean that er shortly after it Molly was married at er Aye just a just before the war er broke out Molly was married , and Cathy got married during the war and I got ma er no The three of us got married just round about the same time you know . |
17 | and May died nineteen sixty eight or nine , they all died round about the same time |