Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 2 | It is sold as a paste and is hardened by light ; once the paste is in the cavity , the dentist sets it by shining a blue light for about a minute . |
| 3 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 4 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 5 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 6 | There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode . |
| 7 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 8 | Some Dell notebooks let you change the battery with the machine still switched on , by making sure there 's enough standby power to run the machine for about a minute . |
| 9 | ‘ Three men see a boy for about a second in the dark , in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise . |
| 10 | Usually we 've finished with lunch by about a quarter past one . |
| 11 | Turn it into an oiled bowl , cover with a polythene bag and leave in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size . |
| 12 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 13 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 14 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 15 | They say the body was probably in the compost for about a week . |
| 16 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 17 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 18 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 19 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 20 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 21 | There are no parturition problems : the calves are small at birth ( 30–35kg ) and have nicely tapered heads , and the prepotent bulls are ideal for crossing on first-calf heifers ; they also give a shorter gestation period by about a week and colour-mark their progeny . |
| 22 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |
| 23 | He took her amusement in good part , however , and he took his eyes off her to study the menu for about a minute . |
| 24 | and we were in con convoy for about a week , then we suddenly found ourselves alone |
| 25 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 26 | Both involved a delay of about an hour , and in the second case an officer was forced to go in a staff car to attend the patient . |
| 27 | Yeah I I usually find myself having just deposited Spike at the station at about a quarter past nine and then I 'm in town and er able to do things in town . |
| 28 | But to return to the run of the mill accident , the team will be occupied on average for about a week following which they will report back to the Chief Inspector . |
| 29 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 30 | Cos it 's in side roads , so that 's an hour-and-a-half okay , you could we waiting for your train for about an hour so that 's two-and-a-half hours |