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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 4 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Throughout most of the 1980s there was a ‘ bubble ’ of spare capacity , equal to about a quarter of total capacity at its peak . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My fuchsia now that was , that was erm , blooming until about a week ago |
| 10 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 11 | Well er erm once they 're opened they 're alright for about an hour . |
| 12 | 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 . |