Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 2 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 3 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 4 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 6 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 7 | Wait until the baby has been well for about a week , and then reintroduce each food in turn , beginning with those least likely to cause trouble , and testing cow 's milk last . |
| 8 | Pour the mixture into a greased and floured tin ( in the shape of a ring if you have one ) and bake at 180°C , 350°F , Gas Mark 4 for about an hour until cooked . |
| 9 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 10 | Throughout most of the 1980s there was a ‘ bubble ’ of spare capacity , equal to about a quarter of total capacity at its peak . |
| 11 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 12 | My fuchsia now that was , that was erm , blooming until about a week ago |
| 13 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 14 | Well er erm once they 're opened they 're alright for about an hour . |
| 15 | Although initial estimates were for far more , production from these fields is likely to come to no more than 1600 million cu. metres per year ( 1.4 MTOE ) — sufficient for about a quarter of 1984 gas use . |