Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] at about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 2 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 3 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 4 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 5 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 6 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 7 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 8 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 9 | Each cluster of features is acquired at about the same time , but not all speakers — now seen as " learners " — go through all five stages . |
| 10 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 11 | I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built . |
| 12 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 13 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 14 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 15 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |