Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] about [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 3 | As the baby grows up , 24-hour rhythms begin to appear from about the second month of life onwards . |
| 4 | No you 're not but in fact studies show after about the first ten minutes , people are n't absorbing much anyway |
| 5 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 6 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 9 | N no , we went into about the second or third I think , is there one up there one up there |
| 10 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The month began quietly , but things really began to move from about the 10th onwards , and in terms of takings we recorded a couple of record days . |